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Miramare Castle
The story
History of Miramare Castle
Archduke Maximilian's white seafront palace, built on a rocky promontory above the Adriatic and wrapped in gardens of exotic plants.
Italy · Friuli-Venezia Giulia · Romantic
- Built
- 1856–1860
- Era
- Revival
- Style
- Romantic
- Country
- Italy
- Region
- Friuli-Venezia Giulia
- UNESCO
- —
- Coordinates
- 45.703, 13.713
In depth
The fuller history
Miramare Castle (Italian: Castello di Miramare; Slovene: Grad Miramar; German: Schloss Miramar; Spanish: Castillo de Miramar) is a 19th-century castle direct on the Gulf of Trieste between Barcola and Grignano in Trieste, northeastern Italy. It was built from 1856 to 1860 for Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian and his wife, Charlotte of Belgium, later Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico and Empress Carlota of Mexico, based on a design by Carl Junker. The castle's grounds include an extensive cliff and seashore park of 22 hectares (54 acres) designed by the archduke.
Key dates
- 1852In 1852 he was appointed an officer and in 1854 he became Commander in Chief of the Imperial Austrian Navy.
- 1860Subsequently, during the completion of Miramare Castle, the archduke had a small castle called the Gartenhaus or Castelletto built, which reproduced on a smaller scale the facade of the main castle and which he lived in off and…
- 1864The work, steadily supervised by Maximilian, was finished only after his departure in 1864 for Mexico; where after a brief reign as Emperor he was executed in June 1867.
- 1925Between October 1925 and March 1926, by mutual consent of the two governments, Austria returned all the furnishings in order to make possible the reconstruction of the castle's original interior.
- 1929The restoration of the furnishings and rooms, under the direction of the Royal Superintendence, meant that the museum could be opened to the public on March 24, 1929.
- 1955Finally, in March 1955, the park was reopened free of charge to the public and from June 2 of the same year, Maximilian's residence was named the Historical Museum of Miramare Castle and entrusted to the Sopraintendenza per i…
Historical summary drawn from Wikipedia. Read the full article.
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