View of Piazza Corno—now Piazza De Amicis—with the Attems Petzenstein Palace, completed in 1745 as the city residence of the noble Gorizia family. Nicolò Pacassi worked on its construction. The palace was home to the eighteenth-century Accademia dei Filomeni. Since 1900, it has housed the Provincial Museums. In the background, the entrance to Via dei Signori—now Via Carducci. In the center, you can glimpse the Fountain of Hercules, also by Picasso, created in 1775, but removed in 1934 for traffic reasons and relocated in the garden of the Attems Palace.

At the end of Piazza Corno—now Piazza De Amicis—the buildings were compact; Via Silvio Pellico, opened in 1908 to connect the city center to the Transalpina Station, did not yet exist. The terminus for the horse-drawn carriages to the Southern Station was located in the square. Behind the Attems Palace, on Via Ascoli, was the Jewish ghetto with its now-restored 18th-century synagogue. Currently, Via Silvio Pellico leads both to the Transalpina Station, located in Slovenian territory, and to Via San Gabriele, which leads into the city center of the neighboring town of Nova Gorica.