Nestled in the hills and surrounded by a sweeping view, you can enjoy a succession of tales, castles, remote churches and poems told in different and unique languages…this area, il Collio, which gradually unveils its deep cultural and historical background rich of shades donated by this genuine land.
No land elsewhere in Europe presents the uniqueness of having a name used for centuries by its own inhabitants in different idioms, in the Germanic, Slavic and Romance language.
Collio – in the nineteenth century was written Coglio – and Cuei and Brda, but in the past it was also called “In den Ecken”. And this last one is perhaps one of its oldest cartographic mentions.

It was used by the German feudal lords, who lived here throughout the Middle Ages, and for the Austrian aristocracy nobility until the end of the nineteenth century. Francesco Leopoldo Savio, a literary scholar from Gorizia, wrote in 1820 in Barbana a beautiful sonnet in German entitled “In Ecken“.