Antonio Lasciac

I had less luck in Gorizia than in Cairo, where I became chief architect of Khedivé, Egypt's viceroy. But on the Rafut hill you can admire the eclectic villa I built when I came back home.

Dear visitor, I was an architect and engineer, formed at Vienna's Politecnico, but also a poet, musician and cultist of homeland history. I traveled a lot and worked in Rome and Naples, but mostly abroad: in Constantinople and above all in Egypt, between Alexandria and Cairo, where I was given the title of "bey" and where I designed palaces, villas, banks and public buildings. My projects for Gorizia were often rejected (like the regulatory plan that redesigned it as a splendid "garden city") but my ideas often influenced colleagues of the time. Nearby, in the square of the hamlet of San Rocco, where I was born, I created a monumental obelisk fountain and on the Rafut hill I built a house in Moorish style, where I would have liked to go back to enjoy the beautiful Gorizia climate, if in 1914 the war hadn’t broken out.

You can find me here

The castle and the surrounding town during the War