| The great and powerful Castle of Gorizia testifies the independent spirit and the high civil level of this town which has been able to remain autonomous from 1000 to 1500 a.C., against before the Aquileia Patriarchate and after the Venice Republic, becoming at last for 500 years capital of a prosperous county under the protection of Habsburg Empire. |
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The main attractions of the town of Gorizia are the medieval complex around the Castle of 1300, with double walls, and a typically middle-european urban structure: airy and with well definite main streets (first Corso Italia) and scattered with big and small palaces, churches, monuments and garden of various ages.
In the western side of the town flows solemn the Isonzo river.
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An interesting aspect of the town are some singular thematic museums that also the hurried tourist must not miss. Three of them are just on the castle hill:
- First World War Museum, rich of relics and very meaningful scenic reconstructions
- Museum of the Fashion and applied arts
- Ethnographic Museum.
The other museums are rich of works of art and of period furnishing on show (besides in the austere medieval castle) in the Petzenstein and in the Lantieri palaces, which well explain the widespread high civil and cultural level of the people in the Habsburg ‘old provinces’. |
| Also the Gorizia castle itself is a cultural mine (open every day, excepted monday). It contains: furnishing of different ages / complete collections of medieval steel weapons, siege machines and musical instruments / Illustrative panels and models of Gorizia County. |
You must visit, starting from the castle hill (where into the walls is also a small village with the S.Spirito chapel):
- University restyled upon neogothic structure of old nineteenth-century hospital
- well structured complex of Lantieri Palace including a nice square with open gallery on three sides and an ancient tower
- Duomo of 1600, rich of vestements and works of sacred art
- Rabatta palace
- Municipal palace of 1700
- Evangelical-methodist church
- Ancient ‘borgo’ in Via Rastello, close to the castle hill, with several centuries-old buildings
- S.Ignazio Churche of 1600 in the Vittoria square, with two bell-towers and characteristic onion cupoles
- Attems-Petzenstein palace with historical-artistic museum
- Synagogue
- Coronini palace with wide park open to the public
An walk along Corso Italia (from the centre to the railway station) will explain to you the look and the way of life of an authentic middle-european town. |
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| The town is very rich of vegetation, with several public gardens, and it also has a large park with recreational and picnic facilities on the western side o the Isonzo river in Piuma suburb. |
| Where to sleep and eat, what to bay in Gorizia |
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Recommended Hotels in Gorizia
Hotel LOCANDA DA SANDRO **°°, GORIZIA 34170 GO, via S.Chiara 18, tel.0481-533223 (historical building)
Hotel Restaurant Pizzeria TRE STELLE**°°, GORIZIA 34170 GO, loc.Lucinico stradone Mainizza 207, tel.0481393072 www.trestelle.net
Hotel Best Western GORIZIA PALACE****, GORIZIA 34170 GO, corso Italia 63, tel.0481-82166 fax.0481-31658 www.goriziapalace.com
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Recommended typical Restaurants, Trattorias and Osterias in Gorizia
(1) Trattoria CA’ DI PIERI**°°, GORIZIA 34170 GO, via Codelli 5 (side street of Corso Italia ), tel.0481-5333308 / Meat friulan-slovenian-absburg cooking / Bar open 10-15/18 23.00; cooking time 12-15.00/19-22.00 (saturday evening and sunday closed)
(3) Ristorante AL CHIOSTRO***°, Gorizia 34170 GO, Piazza Sant'Antonio 10, tel.0481-536430,
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/ Regional and creative cooking with the most renowned meat and fish dishes and various seasonal produce; large choice of Collio wines; historical building with full of charme cloister / Tuesday evening and wednesday closed
(2) Restaurant AI TRE SOLDI GORIZIANI***°, Gorizia 34170 GO, corso Italia 38, tel.0481-531956 fax.536038 www.aitresoldigoriziani.it / In the centre of the town, a world of middle-european and mediterranean tastes, both in meat and fish dishes / About fifthy recipes of the daily menu change following the seasonal fresh produce; hundred regional wines / Two halls and one private room, summer garden / Monday closed
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Recommended traditional and artistic craftsmen inGorizia
Ricamificio SPILLO of Vidoz Michela, GORIZIA 34170 GO, via Aquileia 37, tel.0481-534601 348-5160654 fax. 0481-545795 www.ricamificiospillo.it / Every kind of embroidery on every type of material
Goldsmith STAFUZZA MARCO, GORIZIA 34170, via Ascoli 4, tel.0481-30101 Creations in barbaric style with gold and precious stones
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