Belvedere di Povoletto is a quiet little village with lovely views of the surrounding countryside, located on the left bank of the Torre river, just a few minutes' drive North of Udine. Belvedere is the seat of the "Villa Domus Magna" ("large house" in Latin), the first Venetian villa in Friuli, built in the XVth century by the patriarcan family Partistagno and recently restored, by family Sebastianutto / Pelizzo, to its original beauty with painstaking attention to all historical and architectural details. The villa sits on a 5 hectare (12 acres) idyllic countryside estate, including a swimming pool and a large lawn garden encircled by a stone wall.

THE Partistagno'S FAMILY:
Noble friulan family. Between the much personality of outstanding of the family name:
Isidoro, poetry of the XV - XVI century;
Giuseppe, poet lived between the XVI and the XVII century (awn of him an epigram in praise of the of Erasmo's poem from Valvasone, The Lancillotto);
Perseo, sentenced to the decapitatin in default about Ortensio Frangipane's Killing; and
Gerardo, the character described from Ippolito Nievo in the first chapter of the "Confessioni di un italiano", rare example of friulan that knew itself to the owners of shift.