{{More citations needed|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox Italian comune | name = Gemona del Friuli | official_name = Città di Gemona del Friuli | native_name = {{native name|fur|Glemone}}<br/>{{native name|sl|Humin}} | image_skyline = Gemona Duomo di Santa Maria Assunta 14082004 01.jpg | imagesize = | image_alt = | image_caption = Cathedral of Gemona | image_shield = Gemona del Friuli-Stemma.svg | shield_alt = | image_map = | map_alt = | map_caption = | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = | coordinates = {{coord|46|17|N|13|8|E|type:city(11,140)_region:IT|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_footnotes = | region = Friuli-Venezia Giulia | province = Udine (UD) | frazioni = Piovega, Campagnola, Campolessi, Maniaglia, Ospedaletto, Godo, Centro Storico, Stalis, Taviele, Taboga | mayor_party = | mayor = Roberto Revelant | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 56.2 | population_footnotes = <ref name="istat">All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.</ref> | population_total = 10405 | population_as_of = 31 January 2026 | pop_density_footnotes = | population_demonym = Gemonesi | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = 272 | twin1 = | twin1_country = |istat=030043 | saint = Saint Anthony | day = June 13 | postal_code = 33013 | area_code = 0432 | website = {{official website|https://www.comune.gemona-del-friuli.ud.it/}} | footnotes = }}
'''Gemona del Friuli''' ({{langx|fur|Glemone}}; {{langx|sl|Humin}}; {{langx|de|Klemaun}}; {{langx|la|Glemona}}) is a {{lang|it|comune}} (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Udine, in the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about {{convert|90|km|mi}} northwest of Trieste and about {{convert|25|km|mi}} northwest of Udine.
The municipality of Gemona del Friuli contains the {{lang|it|frazioni}} (boroughs) Campagnola, Campolessi, Maniaglia, Ospedaletto, Godo, Centro Storico, Stalis, Taviele and Taboga.
Gemona del Friuli borders the following municipalities: Artegna, Bordano, Buja, Lusevera, Montenars, Osoppo, Trasaghis and Venzone.
==History== thumb|left|Ognissanti church, Ospedaletto, one of Gemona subdivisions Evidence of human occupation in Gemona goes back to prehistoric times. The town occupies a key point on the road from Italy to Austria, and there are traces of Celtic occupation around the year 500 BCE.
The area was subject to various invasions in the period 166–750, including Huns, Marcomanni, Ostrogoths, Visigoths and Lombards, who had it as a stronghold from about 558. Lombard historian Paul the Deacon mentions it in 611 as an "impregnable castle". From the fall of the Lombard Kingdom of Italy until 952 Gemona was under Carolingian rulers. During this period the castle was built, the modern town growing around it.
From 776, Gemona became an important part of the Patriarchate of Aquileia. In the 12th century Gemona was an autonomous commune: in 1184 the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa granted a charter for the town's market. In the 13th and 14th centuries it returned to the Patriarchate, until, in 1420, that state was absorbed by the Republic of Venice.
In 1797 French troops under Napoleon defeated the Venetian Republic: in 1798, after the Treaty of Campo Formio, Gemona came under Austrian rule. Following a plebiscite in 1866, Gemona became part of the newly unified Kingdom of Italy.
The present town is medieval in origin but was badly damaged in the 1976 Friuli earthquake. Restoration began the same year, and now the town has been largely restored. Since 2008 the castle gardens have been reopened to the public and since 2010 various cultural events have been held there in the summer<ref>{{cite web|date=2022-09-17 |language=it |title=Carta Archeologica online del Friuli Venezia Giulia |url=https://www.archeocartafvg.it/portfolio-articoli/gemona-ud-il-castello/ |website=archeocartafvg.it}}<!-- auto-translated from unknown (Italian or Spanish) by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>. The renovation of the buildings is ongoing: as of November 2024 the clock tower and the former prisons were completed, and since 2019 it has been a museum exhibition venue.<ref>{{cite web|date=2026-04-29 |title=Castello di Gemona |url=https://consorziocastelli.it/castles/udine/castello-di-gemona?set_language=en |website=consorziocastelli.it}}<!-- auto-translated from unknown (Italian or Spanish) by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
==Main sights== Gemona's main attraction is the medieval cathedral (''Duomo''), dating to the 14th century, with its massive ''campanile'' (freestanding bell tower) of the same period. The collections of its Museo Civico include a ''Madonna and Child'' by Cima da Conegliano.
== Gallery == <gallery mode=packed heights=75 "Gemona del Friuli"> File:Gemona chiesa della Beata Vergine delle Grazie 13102007 33.jpg|Hulk of the Chiesa della Beata Vergine delle Grazie, as a result of the 1976 earthquake File:Chiesa di Ognissanti - Ospedaletto (UD) - Lacerto di affresco.JPG | ''Christ Before Caiaphas'', fresco in Ognissanti church, Ospedaletto. File:Tagliamento Gemona del Friuli 01112007 02.jpg|The Tagliamento River with Gemona in the background File:Friuli-Alps.jpg|The Carnic Prealps from the Gemona plain File:Osoppo Canale Ledra 23012008 04.jpg|Ledra Canal near Osoppo File:Gemona 02.jpg|The town hall of Gemona del Friuli </gallery>
==Infrastructure and transport== === Roads === The Gemona-Osoppo junction of the A23 motorway, which leads to Palmanova and the Austrian border, falls within the municipality. State Road 13 Pontebbana also passes through Gemona. === Railways === Gemona has a station along the Pontebbana railway, which connects Udine to Tarvisio. The station is also the terminus of the railway to Sacile. The station is served by the Micotra rail link, which connects Trieste and Udine to Villach. === Urban Mobility === Two urban bus lines operated by SAF operate in the municipality: the first connects the hospital to the station via Piazza Garibaldi, while the other runs from the center to the southern outskirts, terminating in Maniaglia. The same company organizes interurban services to Tolmezzo or Udine.
==Twin towns== Gemona del Friuli is twinned with: *{{flagicon|AUT}} Velden am Wörther See, Austria *{{flagicon|AUT}} Laakirchen, Austria *{{flagicon|ITA}} Foligno, Italy, since 2001
==Notable people== <!---♦♦♦ Only add a person to this list if they already have their own article on the English Wikipedia ♦♦♦---> <!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---> *Alessandro Cicutti (born 1987), footballer
== See also == * Lake Ospedaletto * 1976 Friuli earthquake
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==External links== * {{Official|https://www.comune.gemona-del-friuli.ud.it/}} {{in lang|it}} * {{Commonscatinline}} * {{OSM relation|179080}}
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