The construction of a Roman city always begins by tracing the two main streets, originally called Cardo and Decumano in latin. These two intersected at the forum, the main square, heart of the city. Corso Mazzini is exactly this: the Cardo of the Roman Cividale.

The short stretch of road that connects the two main squares, Piazza Duomo and Piazza Paolo Diacono, is undoubtedly the most glamorous street in our ducal town.

It is an uninterrupted succession of shop windows, plastered houses and commercial activities, among which ancient buildings and retro details are hidden.

What was once the city theater, in neoclassical style and designed by Leo Morandini overlooks the street. Walking up the street we find the first intersection with via Cavour. At the intersection of the two streets stand two buildings that deserve our attention; the first is a beautiful fourteenth-century brick house decorated with pretty windows and characterized by a portico with arches supported by columns with leafy capitals; on the opposite side, at the corner between Corso Mazzini and via Cavour, Palazzo Stringher-Levrini, catches the eye with its spectacular frescoes. The palace, which dates back to the sixteenth century, was remodeled both in the eighteenth century and at the beginning of the last century, but it was only after the 1976 earthquake that the precious sixteenth-century frescoes were discovered. They include both mythological profane scenes and sacred subjects framed by geometries and friezes. On the facade overlooking Corso Mazzini a Madonna with Child is visible and on the left four saints, including San Girolamo and San Rocco. Above, at the second floor, three labors of Hercules are depicted.

In the part of the building overlooking Via Cavour, you can see a depiction of Venus and the three Graces, above, an episode of Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Pyramus and Thisbe, on the left a fresco shows Hercules fighting against Antaeus.

Therefore dear Guests ... Lift your gaze and let yourself be enchanted !!!