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Devil's Bridge

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Devil's Bridge

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Location: Cividale Del Friuli, Udine, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy

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1. View of Castello di Trussio – Devil's Bridge loop from Gorizia Centrale

63.8km

02:42

390m

Intermediate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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2. Soča Gorge – Devil's Bridge loop from Volarje

79.7km

03:26

650m

Intermediate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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3. Devil's Bridge – Fountain No. 14 loop from Bottenicco Zona Industriale

64.0km

03:19

1,040m

Expert road ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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Deni West

November 15, 2020

The bridge is the symbol of the city of Cividale del Friuli (UD). Built in stone starting from 1442 and divided into two arches, it rests on a natural boulder placed in the bed of the Natisone river, along which you can admire a spectacular gorge. The bridge is 22.50 m high, rests on three pylons, developing for 48 m on two arches of different widths (22 m and 19 m). The asymmetry is due to the position of the boulder on which the central pillar rests.
The name of the bridge derives from a popular legend, probably fueled by the tormented constructive vicissitudes of the artifact: it is said that to build the bridge, the people of Cividale had asked the Devil for help. In exchange, he would have demanded the soul of the first creature to pass over the bridge. Accepted the pact, in a single night the Devil erected the bridge, but the following morning the citizens let an animal (or a cat or a dog or even a pig, according to other versions, pass over the bridge: it seems that in some periods of year someone has heard noises, similar to grunts, coming from the river bed around the bridge). The Devil thus mocked, had to be satisfied with the animal's soul, leaving the Cividale people in peace forever.

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Hartwig Bruns

October 5, 2021

Very nice entrance to the city

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Matic V

December 4, 2022

Smaragd colour of water

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Location: Cividale Del Friuli, Udine, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy

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Devil's Bridge

1. View of Castello di Trussio – Devil's Bridge loop from Gorizia Centrale

2. Soča Gorge – Devil's Bridge loop from Volarje

3. Devil's Bridge – Fountain No. 14 loop from Bottenicco Zona Industriale

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