Tolmezzois a town and comune in the province of Udine, part of the region called Friuli-Venezia Giulia in the north-eastern Italy Geography Tolmezzo is located at the feet of the Strabut Mountain, between the Tagliamento river. Nearby is the Mount Amariana (1,906 m). The comune includes aso the five redirect-frazioni of Cadunea , Caneva, Casanova, Fusea , Illegio, Imponzo.
The existence of Tolmezzo (called Tolmetium) is first documented in the late 1st millennium CE, when it was part of the Patriarchate of Aquileia, but it has been suggested that the town stemmed from a very ancient pre-Roman settlement. In Roman times, the area was crossed by one of the main Roman roads that connect Italy to what is now Austria. The city had a flourishing market, and was defended by a line of walls with 18 towers and by the castle of the Patriarchs. In 1420, it was annexed to the Republic of Venice, but its trades and industries did not suffer from the change, and the city maintained its privileges. In 1797, with the Treaty of Campo Formio, it was handed over to the Austrian Empire, and, after a short Napoleonic rule, it was included in the clientKingdom of Lombardy-Venetia Tolmezzo became part of the new unified Kingdom of Italy in 1866.
