Castle of Miramare

The Castle of Miramare and its park were erected on the karst rocky headland of Grignano, close to Triest, according to the will of Ferdinand Maximilian of Hapsburg (1832-1867), the younger brother of the austrian emperor Francis Joseph.
The estate was designed in 1856 by Carl Junker and the outer construction was completed in 1860. Furnishings and inner decorations, by Franz and Julius Hofman, were completed after Maximilian’s departure to Mexico in 1864. After being appointed emperor of Mexico, Maximilian was shot at Queretaro in 1867.
The Castle is one among the fewest examples of a satisfactorily preserved aristocratic residence free from shocking changes or remakes while it exercises an unbroken charm, through the furnishings and the decorations in eclectic style, of living in the middle of the nineteenth century in a place where mediterranean suggestion is melting with the atmosphere of tipically northern shapes. [More Informations]