Sagrado (; ; ; ) is a (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Gorizia in the

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region of

Friuli-Venezia Giulia Friuli-Venezia Giulia () is one of the 20 regions of Italy and one of five autonomous regions with special statute. The regional capital is Trieste on the Gulf of Trieste, a bay of the Adriatic Sea. Friuli-Venezia Giulia has an area of and a ...

, located about northwest of

Trieste Trieste ( , ; ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital and largest city of the Regions of Italy#Autonomous regions with special statute, autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, as well as of the Province of Trieste, ...

and about southwest of

Gorizia Gorizia (; ; , ; ; ) is a town and (municipality) in northeastern Italy, in the autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. It is located at the foot of the Julian Alps, bordering Slovenia. It is the capital of the Province of Gorizia, Region ...

, on the left bank of the Isonzo River. Sagrado is nearby the

Monte San Michele Monte San Michele () is a hill on the Karst Plateau, in the Italian province of Gorizia, on the border between the municipalities of Sagrado () and Savogna d'Isonzo (). It is located eight kilometres southwest of Gorizia, on the left bank of ...

, the seat of fierce fightings between

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and

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during

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Transport

Sagrado railway station Sagrado () is a railway station serving the town of Sagrado, in the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, northern Italy. The station is located on the Udine–Trieste railway. The train services are operated by Trenitalia. Train services The stati ...

is served by trains to

Udine Udine ( ; ; ; ; ) is a city and (municipality) in northeastern Italy, in the middle of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic Sea and the Carnic Alps. It is the capital of the Province of Udine, Regional decentralization entity ...

Treviso Treviso ( ; ; ) is a city and (municipality) in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 87.322 inhabitants (as of December 2024). Some 3,000 live within the Venetian wall ...

and

Venice Venice ( ; ; , formerly ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are li ...

Twin towns

Branik Branik (; , ) is a village in western Slovenia Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country in Central Europe. It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, a ...

, Slovenia *

Győrság Győrság is a village in Győr-Moson-Sopron county, Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Rom ...

, Hungary *

Poggersdorf Poggersdorf (; Slovene language, Slovenian: Pokrče; Rosen Valley dialect: ''Poča ves'') is a municipality, since 2013 a so-called ''Market Municipality'' (German language, German: ''Marktgemeinde'') in the district of Klagenfurt-Land in the Aust ...

, Austria

References

Cities and towns in Friuli-Venezia Giulia {{FriuliVeneziaGiulia-geo-stub