In summer of the same year, after the first battles of the Isonzo, the Front was still blocked at Mt. Calvario.  This was why in November military leaders took the hard decision to bomb the city. “First, on November the 17^th, 280 mm howitzers thundered down upon the city. From the row of abandoned and silent houses, shaken by explosions, smoke and tongues of flame rose up to the sky to the crackling sound of fire.” After the Italians took Gorizia in August 1916, Austrian troops continued to incessantly bomb ...

The long route to exile, from Scotland via Bohemia, brought the royal family in 1836 to Gorizia, then part of the Austrian empire. The small city on the Isonzo river bank warmly welcomed the prestigious guests and soon established a deep bond between Gorizia and the family, that consolidated when Charles X and his descendants decided to choose the Franciscan Monastery of Kostanjevica, today in Slovenia, as the burial place for the family.

After 1860 the building of a new railway station, far from the old town centre, required the opening of a new road axis, a wide and spacious thoroughfare, which later assisted the development of the urban fabric. In fact, along this road attractive villas surrounded by green started to be built.  The closing of the borders with Italy in 1866, fostered the promotion of Gorizia as a welcoming centre for the Austrian aristocracy and upper class. The opening of the public garden in 1863 and the creation and expansion of ...

Following the route the Emperor took during that visit, along the streets adorned with triumphal arches and imperial signs, the tour leads to the discovery of the Habsburg Gorizia, the city for which the Baron Carl von Czoernig, an esteemed imperial retiree, enraptured by the beauty of the city landscape and climate, coined, in 1873, the epithet: “Austrian Nice”. This was the time when Gorizia was trying to become a tourist destination for aristocrats, by promoting the creation of parks, hotels, coffee houses and other shops in a Mitteleuropean and ...

Gorizia nasconde diversi luoghi di suggestione che portano con sé una magia particolare e incantano i cuori e gli animi. Questi angoli sono stati mappati per permettere agli innamorati di scoprirli e di raggiungerli per rinnovare e riconfermare la promessa d’amore.

In the hundred years of the twentieth century Gorizia and its region witnessed countless changes. These are manifest in the architecture of the city’s buildings.First there was the Mitteleuropean period, showing the influence of the Otto Wagner school (Max Fabiani, Antonio Lasciac and Silvano Barich) that manifest in palazzos, churches and villas. Then came the immediate post First World War of the twenties during which Rationalism and Novecentismo interacted with the need for Reconstruction (Umberto Cuzzi and Angiolo Mazzoni). Lastly, later in the second half of the twentieth century, came ...

From the time of the Gorizia Counts, in power until 1500, when, by virtue of succession, Gorizia passed to the Habsburgs, to the realm of Maria Theresa and Franz Joseph, the city maintained its “Mitteleuropean” character with medieval, baroque and 19th century embellishments forming a harmonious whole.

Dai vigneti nasce l’uva, dalla quale si ottengono vini pregiati e apprezzati in tutto il mondo. Il percorso “Le Vigne di Oslavia” è un salto nella storia, con quattro punti storici (Ossario di Oslavia, Cippo Brigata Abruzzi, Obelisco dei 4 Generali, Cippo Granatieri di Sardegna) dedicati alla Grande Guerra. Ed è allo stesso tempo un cammino nell’eccellenza vitivinicola con le sette cantine del posto (Dario Princic, La Castellada, Primosic, Fiegl, Gravner, Radikon, Il Carpino). Oggi appare strano passeggiare per Oslavia - un mondo di campagne e vigneti - e imbattersi ...

It is a quiet city. There isn’t much traffic and there’s no hectic pace--even in rush hours. 
For these reasons Gorizia provides opportunities to enjoy, at any time of day, a unique urban running experience. You can run through, or by, the most significant historic areas of the city (parks, tree-lined roads, palazzos, monuments, commercial thoroughfares and squares) without worrying about traffic or urban smog--a rarity in Italy.
The main running route is almost completely through pedestrian areas, along cycle paths and following roads with wide and comfortable ...

Jewish presence in Gorizia was already known in the Middle Ages but it consolidated from the 16th Century, when, despite limitations and expulsion orders, the economic role of Jews become stronger. Ordered by Emperor Leopoldo I, on 24^th March 1684, a “ghetto” in the San Giovanni district was created, where the Jews could carry on their activities--especially the production of silk and beeswax, the loaning of money and commerce. Starting from the end of the 18th Century, when the Emperor Joseph II issued the “Patent of Toleration” that abolished all ...

Oggi, alcuni di essi non ci sono più, altri sono stati spostati, ma è ancora possibile ritrovarli lungo una sorta di Percorso del Tempo, che possiamo idealmente far partire ...

Al giorno d’oggi purtroppo molto s’è perso, ma permangono ancora qua e là testimonianze dell’antica vocazione commerciale della città.