“Il Friuli è un piccolo compendio dell’universo, alpestre piano e lagunoso in sessanta miglia da tramontana a mezzodì.“
Ippolito Nievo
A green holiday in Friuli, in the name of greenery in high altitude tranquility. A unique environment, in contact with local agricultural realities, in the grass with numerous aromatic and floral species. Sauris, called Zahre in the local dialect, is a small village in Friuli surrounded by passes and mountains. It’s formed by two main nuclei: Sauris di Sopra ( up) and Sauris di Sotto (down). The visitor is welcomed at the entrance of the village by the lake of Sauris, created in the 1940s for hydroelectric purposes. Visit and tasting at the Prosciutto lab and the Sauris brewery and somecraft workshops. Along with Italian and Friulian, Sauris still speaks an ancient and fascinating language. It is a German dialect belonging to the linguistic group of southern Bavarian, the Sauran language.