Gorizia - Main Sights

Main Sights

• The Castle, built within the Middle Ages walls, was once the seat of the administrative and judiciary power of the county. It is divided into the Corte dei Lanzi (with foundings of a high tower demolished in the 16th century), the Palazzetto dei Conti (13th century) and the Palazzetto Veneto. The Lanzi were the armed guards, the term being an Italian form of Landsknecht. The palatine chapel, entitled to Saint Bartholomew houses canvases of the Venetian school of painting and traces of Renaissance frescoes. There is also a Museum of the Goritian Middle Ages.
• The Cathedral (originally erected in the 14th century), like many of the city's buildings, was almost entirely destroyed during World War I. It has been rebuilt following the forms of the 1682 edifice, a Baroque church with splendid stucco decoration. A Gothic chapel of San Acatius is annexed to the nave.
• The most important church of Gorizia is that of St. Ignatius of Loyola, built by the Jesuits in 1680–1725. It has a single nave with precious sculptures at the altars of the side chapels. In the presbytery Christoph Tausch painted a Glory of St. Ignatius in 1721.
• The Palazzo Attems Petzenstein (19th century), designed by Nicolò Pacassi.
• The church of San Rocco.
• Palazzo Cobenzl, today seat of the archbishops.
• The Earls of Lantieri's house, which housed emperors and popes in his history.
• The Palazzo Coronini Cronberg, including an art gallery.
• The Transalpina railway square, divided by an international border.
• The Department of International and Diplomatic Sciences of the University of Trieste, hosted in the beautiful "Seminario Minore", is the most prestigious academic course in Foreign Affairs in Italy.

• The Victory Square (Piazza della Vittoria), is the traditional center of the town

• Church of Saint Ignatius

• Gorizia Castle

• Gorizia Castle

• The Chapel of the Holy Spirit

• The Coronini Mansion