We are in a time of year where every sunny day is a precious gift not to be missed and, therefore, are gathering the family left for Gorizia to visit his castle.
The hill on which it stands makes it look visible from much of the city and near enough to follow the clear indications tourist.
The hill is believed to have been inhabited since prehistoric to its strategic location. It is accessed by a moderately steep walk, starting from the charming neighborhood Habsburg below, with shops and distinctive architecture, along the outer walls to join the Gate Leopoldina (1660)
moved by stone coats of arms (in the middle depicts the double-headed eagle of the House of Austria).
La Porta introduces the Castle Village, consisting of various architectures in which the lines remain constructive and original elements of late medieval or post. The 'Land above', as it was commonly called the citadel between the outer ramparts and the castle itself had its period of greatest prosperity and splendor under the regency of Count Henry II in 1300 and lasted until about the mid-1500 . Count Henry II, liberated the village from an almost exclusively military, giving it a good business autonomy. In the seventeenth century in the village were built several mansions, which were added to the representative offices of the Provincial States, those of the City and the Captain. The walls that were the hallmark of the city, however, they strongly influence the development of narrowing the area of \u200b\u200bpopulation. The expansion could take place now only outside the town itself, where in fact took place the economic life of Gorizia in the early decades of the thirteenth century, when, at the "villa" in Gorizia, was allowed to hold a weekly market (1210 - Count Meinhard II). The gradual increase in population and the transfer of almost all activities commercial and merchant outside of town, he identified the city of Gorizia, with its lower part outside the village. In 1542 also the Provincial States, accounting for the autonomy of local government moved from the Castle to the 'Theatre nobilium'. Now the castle that remained was the official residence of the Captain, representing the sovereign authority, since even the nobility of Gorizia had begun to desert the city high and gradually build their houses elsewhere. The village, therefore, became a suburban area inhabited only by a few nobles and many common people.
Going to the castle stands the Gothic Church of the Holy Spirit (1398-1414), a single hall and belfry that sums up the Nordic and Venetian influences.
In the pleasant surroundings of the old buildings and a nice green stands the Castle,
whose current issue, which is of great emotional impact, is the result of a series of works that , from the primitive structure, marks the construction of a real castle in the thirteenth century. with the counts of Gorizia, which must still surviving building of the same name (with five double windows) and a first ring of defense in timber, then replaced in the sixteenth century, from the external covering three floors, with towers, battlements and walls embattled in sandstone by this time made necessary by the use of firearms now prevailing.
The castle was then expanded several times to the increased power of the accounts, which at that time also dominated the Tyrol and other territories. In 1456 a dispute on the legacy of Count Henry Cilli between Emperor Frederick of Austria and Count of Gorizia John Maynard leads to a conflict in the wake of which the latter loses his possessions, Carinthia, and Schloss Bruck Lienz.
Count In 1462 Leonardo became the last Count of Gorizia in 1478 and married the Countess Paola Gonzaga (a side in a fresco of Camera degli Sposi in the Ducal Palace of Mantua). Heirs are not born from the marriage and, therefore, the County of Gorizia fell under the Hapsburg Empire, so that in 1500, the death of Leonardo, the feud was hired by the Emperor Maximilian I of Habsburg.
The Hapsburg domination reconverted the castle as a bulwark of defense as a barracks and prison, as had happened elsewhere.
It was badly damaged by bombing in World War I that semidistrussero the city.
In the 30s he was promoted the return of the architectonic century manor house in its essential shape.
furnishings that complete it, from various sources, creating an atmosphere of other times, date back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and allow you to make a first contact with the noblest production of mobile Friuli.
addition to the aforementioned palace of the Counts of Gorizia, we note that of the provincial hall in which the signs stand of 56 noble families and the emblem of the county.
rich collection of paintings that adorn the various spheres of representation and not.
Very educational section on the ground floor and the exterior, where you can accompany the daily military life and the various weapons in use in the Renaissance.
the splendid panorama from the walkway on Gorizia and Nova Gorica.
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