Since the early 19th century, Gorizia has been renowned among travellers for the beauty of its landscape and its temperate climate.

After 1860, the construction of the new railway station , far from the old historic center, necessitated the opening of a new road axis, a wide and spacious avenue, which guided the subsequent development of the urban fabric and along which gracious villas surrounded by greenery . In the same years, a series of contingent circumstances, such as the closure of the border with Italy in 1866, favored the promotion of Gorizia as a welcoming health resort for the Austrian nobility and upper middle class. The inauguration of the public garden in 1863 and the creation or expansion of numerous private parks and gardens in the latter part of the century contributed to making Gorizia a city immersed in greenery, aptly defined by the apt definition of "Austrian Nice," coined in 1873 by Baron Carl von Czoernig , an illustrious imperial pensioner. Despite the transformations following the destruction of the First World War, Gorizia still preserves many of its historic green areas intact, to which new parks and recreational areas have been added in recent years.