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( 0431 9 11 31; Piazza Pirano; 8.30am-1.45pm Tue-Sun)
This museum, part of the
Museo Archeologico Nazionale, houses early-Christian-era mosaics and funerary monu-
ments gathered from the surrounding ruins.
Sleeping
Camping Aquileia
( 043 19 10 42;
www.campingaquileia.it
;
Via Gemina 10; camping 2 people, car & tent €28, bungalows
€56)
This well-maintained campground is set beside pretty fields; its comfortable new bun-
galows look towards the Basilica and old Roman port.
CAMPGROUND
€
Ostello Domus Augusta
( 0431 9 10 24;
www.ostelloaquileia.it
;
Via Roma 25; s/d €28/46; )
A spotless if rather insti-
tutional hostel with two- to six-bed rooms and private bathrooms down the hall. Friendly,
relaxed staff are helpful and happy to dole out maps and timetables.
HOSTEL
€
Drinking
Taberna Marciani Aquileia
(
www.tabernamarciani.com
;
Via Roma 10)
The bearded and slightly dishevelled crew holding up
the bar at this gently 2nd-century-AD-themed place might look, and act, like they are in
an a touring indie band, but they're more likely to be Austrian archaeologists on a dig.
Popular for plates of local meats and cheese (€4), and good wines by the glass, not to
mention late opening hours.
WINE BAR
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Grado
POP 8600
Another Friulian surprise, the tasteful beach resort of Grado, 14km south of Aquileia,
spreads along a narrow island backed by lagoons and is linked to the mainland by a cause-
way. Behind the less-than-spectacular beaches you'll find a mazelike medieval centre,
criss-crossed by narrow
calli
(lanes) and dominated by the
Romanesque Basilica di
Sant'Eufemia
(Campo dei Parriarchi)
and the nearby remains of a 4th- to 5th-century
church mo-
