Field Marshal Radetzky
In the mid-19th century, it was bought by the Austrian emperor Francis Joseph I, who in 1852 presented it as a gift to the veteran Habsburg marshal Joseph Radetzky. Radetzky renovated the mansion in the Neoclassical style, giving it its present appearance, and spent much of his retirement in it with his wife Francisca von Strassoldo Grafenberg, a local Carniolan noblewoman.
The field marshal Joseph Radetzky von Radetz (1766–1858) contributed a lot to the arrangement of Tivoli Park. There was a full-size bust of Radetzky on display in Ljubljana in front of the Tivoli Castle from 1882 till 1918.
In 1851, it won a prize on the Great Exhibition in London. Today it is preserved by the City Museum of Ljubljana.
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