Welcome to the Land of the Wolf! Valvasone, an ancient medieval village that developed around its extraordinary castle, is located near the Tagliamento, the river along which the history of Friuli was made. The village, the castle, the cathedral, the other churches, and the palaces that dot the historic center have preserved intact the atmosphere and charm derived from having hosted popes and emperors.

The Castle today appears as a massive building lacking those towers, crenellated walls, and drawbridges that characterized it in the past. However, it is easy to imagine how the access arch was actually a much taller tower and the underlying path a drawbridge. Below, all around the defensive walls, flowed a water channel. It was an additional defense but also a way of access to and from the manor. On the ground floor, there is an 18th-century small theater with ornamental frescoes and wooden boxes intricately decorated with paintings from the era. In a room on the ground floor, a cycle of frescoes dating back to the 14th century with a chivalric theme was recently discovered. Inside, still well preserved, are the large kitchen on the first floor with the wide hearth and the private chapel decorated with 17th-century stuccoes.

Il Duomo was consecrated in 1484 to house the relic of the Sacra Tovaglia, a miracle that occurred not far away, in Gruaro. The events are believed to date back to 1294. During the washing of sacred vestments coming from Valvasone, blood stains appeared on the fabric of a cloth, which were believed to have come from a consecrated host forgotten inside it. The building began construction in 1449 in late Romanesque style, was furnished over the following century, and renovated at the end of the 1800s in neo-Gothic style, with numerous wooden elements replaced by marble and a new facade. The church houses a perfectly functioning 16th-century organ, the only surviving one still existing in Italy from the famous Venetian Renaissance tradition. The organ boasts gilded friezes and panels painted by Pomponio Amalteo and Giovanni Antonio de’ Sacchis known as il Pordenone, among the most renowned artists of the era.