Almost every town in the region has a museum or two devoted to the Risorgimento and/or World War I. Well worth a visit to help understand the history of this region (a history, unfortunately, rarely explained in English), these museums trace the Italian national movement from its mid-19th-century beginnings through the intense fighting that took place in Friuli’s mountains to the border disputes involving the line separating Italy from Yugoslavia. Even then, these disputes were not always happily resolved. The treaty of Paris plopped the national boundary right through the town of Gorzia. It wasn’t until later compromises in the 1970s that the line was finally moved over, so that only Gorzia’s eastern suburbs, just beyond the medieval Castello’s hill, remained Slovenian