Conte Leonardo

Dear visitor, my name is Leonardo and I was the last count of the noble Gorizia family (also called Mainardini). It was my dynasty who had the 11 th -century castle built - it still dominates the city - and who ruled the County of Gorizia. After marrying Paola Gonzaga, I hoped for long, but in vain, in the birth of an heir to avoid the extinction of my family. To my death, occurred in 1500, despite my fiefs were claimed also by Venice, they passed under the Habsburgs, then Archdukes of Austria.