Things to do in Province of Gorizia, Friuli Venezia Giulia: The Best Historic Sites

Palazzo Coronini Cronberg, which now houses the homonymous Foundation established by its last owner, Count Guglielmo Coronini Cronberg (1905-1990), is a historic building dating back to the end of the sixteenth century. Walking through the fifteen exhibition rooms, among which the room where in 1836 the last King of France Charles X of Bourbon stayed and died, visitors are taken back in time, thanks to the warm and charming atmosphere of the rooms with sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century furnishings on the ground floor, to the sumptuous eighteenth-century sitting rooms, to the imperial rooms and to the nineteenth-century environments on the main floor. Knick-knacks, silverware, china, crystalware, photographs, portraits and objects of everyday use re-create the atmosphere of a home where people really seem to live in, feeling the presence of the ancient owners in every room. The villa is surrounded by a wonderful five-hectare English-style park, in which you will see important archaeological finds from Aquileia, an elegant Art Nouveau small temple, rare and precious plants: ash trees, lindens, Himalayan cedars, exotic plants, such as palm trees, loquats, bamboos and a centuries-old cork-oak.

ROMANCE IS IN OUR NATURE Siamo un tramonto sulle colline e un calice di un vino speciale. Siamo l’istante che non vorrai dimenticare. Siamo il Castello di Spessa, e il romanticismo è nella nostra natura. Alla fine degli anni Settanta, l’imprenditore friulano Loretto Pali acquista l’azienda vinicola La Boatina a Cormòns, con 60 ettari nella Doc Isonzo. Nel 1987 diventa proprietario di Castello di Spessa, tenuta vinicola del Collio goriziano con 28 ettari di vigne sulle colline di Capriva del Friuli e, nei decenni, crea un elegante country resort, con un campo da golf a 18 buche, 3 ristoranti e diverse camere e appartamenti tra le vigne.