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Udine (Walled town of Italy capital)

a walled town of Italy; capital of a province; in a rich wine country; 85 miles N. E. of Venice. It has wide, handsome streets, and contains a Romanesque cathedral, an archbishop's palace, a beautiful campo santo, and, on a hill in the midst of the city, a castle, formerly the residence of the patriarchs archs of Aquileia. Udine manufactures silk, leather, gloves, hats, etc. Bonaparte resided in the doge's castle at Passariano, close by, during the preliminaries of the peace of Campo-Formio. It was an important naval base in the World War. Pop. about 45,000.