Gardens
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Giardino di Brazzacco
The castle of Brazzà has a fascinating spacious park, created as an expression of love for nature. When Cora Slocomb (Detalmo of Brazzà’s wife in the late 1800s) reached Friuli,...
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Castello di Cordovado
In the Villa Freschi Piccolomini it is possible to admire both an Italian-style garden and an English-style park, characterized by clear subdivisions, visible still today. The garden, in fact, is situated...
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Giardino del castello di Flambruzzo
The garden was created following the criteria of an English-style park. It stretches out behind the castle for 3 and a half hectares to the Stella River on the west and the Cusana irrigation canal on...
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Castello di Duino
The Castle of Duino rises upon the highest point of the area not only to visually control the territory, but perhaps also to be visible from all directions as a symbol of the power the Duino Lords held...
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Palazzo Strassoldo Grafenberg-Coronini
18th-century maps show that there was once a garden behind the villa with a square-shaped perimeter which opened onto a small square. As soon as the Coronini family became the proprietors of the villa,...
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Giardino di Fontanabona
The Castle of Fontanabona can be reached by going along a romantic, winding avenue bordered by tall trees and bushes. At the beginning of the avenue, alongside a large agricultural building, stands a...
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Palazzo Lantieri
Already in the second decade of the 16th century, Palazzo Lantieri was to be considered the most beautiful in the city of Gorizia, hence its name Schönhaus (Casabella), taken after 1527 as the baronial...
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Giardino di Miramare
The park of Miramare was not created to be a majestic garden representing the family’s important position but for private enjoyment. The archduke wanted to design a garden of moderate dimensions,...
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Palazzo Altan
Palazzo Altan was erected in the 17th century in the hamlet of Taliano where in 1603 the family had acquired a building. After some modifications, the passing of ownership to Cesarini of Grimana Tower...
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Giardino di Rocca Bernarda
To the eyes of a visitor the Castle of Rocca Bernarda appears to be a stronghold built for defensive purposes. In a letter sent by the nobleman Jacopo of Valvason Maniago to the Council of the magnificent...
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Giardini di Castelnuovo
The Castle of Sagrado, at the end of the Napoleonic wars, became the best-loved dwelling of Count Raimondo della Torre Hoffer (1749-1817), Lord of Duino, Sagrado, and Sistiana. He dedicated himself body...
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Giardino di Strassoldo di Sopra
The garden of Castello di Sopra was designed in the mid 18th century, at the same time as the park of Castello di Sotto. The development of the two gardens was carried out on the orders of brothers Giuseppe...
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Giardino di Sterpo
The lovely park at the Castle of Sterpo is a typical example of the composite style which was in fashion at the end of the 1800s. It is special for its romantic atmosphere which is more rural than most...
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Giardino di Strassoldo di Sotto
The park around the Castle of Strassoldo di Sotto is one of the most interesting in Friuli both for its exceptionally well-preserved state and because it marks the beginning of landscape gardening in...
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Giardino di Zoppola
The legend says that the park was created by a great-uncle of the current owners, Francesco Panciera di Zoppola, who graduated from university with a degree in medicine towards the end of the 1800s and...
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Parco del Castello di Spessa
Like all ancient manors, Spessa Castle - in the heart of the Collio region of Gorizia - exerts a subtle charm on even the most distracted visitor. And it is not only because of the refined elegance of...