In the northern part of the city, near Salcano, the border line makes a sudden and unmotivated right-angled deviation around an isolated villa, perfectly following its surrounding walls.

At the end of the Second World War, the villa was owned by Countess Liduvska De Nordis Hornik, an adventurous entrepreneur who had moved to Kenya to personally manage her plantations.

Legend has it that it was the attractive countess's high-ranking connections who kept her childhood home within the Italian border. Having entered the exclusive circle of Nairobi's British community, Liduvska had become friends with Sarah Churchill (third daughter of the great British statesman), who was her guest several times in Gorizia.

Whether the border deviation actually depended on influential acquaintances or on the parties that the wealthy landowner was said to have organized to satisfy the Allies' desire for entertainment is not known, but it would only be further proof of how arbitrariness was decisive in those days.