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Castello Miramare interior. Elevations of the castle annex ("Castelletto") taken from Junker’s plans. After having been commissioned as an officer in the Imperial navy in 1852, Maximilian decided to move to Trieste where he stayed for increasingly longer and more frequent periods.
The Christianborg (Osu Castle) – former seat of the government till December 2008, Accra ... Tachara, one of the interior palaces in Persepolis; ... Miramare Castle ...
In 1856 he was instructed by archduke of Maximilian I of Mexico, the brother of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, with the construction of the Miramare Castle in Grignano near Trieste. In 1860 he took over the supervision of a church in Bar in present-day Montenegro. Pope Pius IX granted him the Order of St. Gregory the Great for the project.
The cliffside Miramare Castle overlooking the Gulf of Trieste was built in the mid 1850s for Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian. It is now a museum, featuring almost all of the original ...
It is located in Miramare Castle, that ‘gleaming pearl in an emerald setting’ on the outskirts of Trieste built by Maximilian, younger brother of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria. The castle is filled with oil paintings, hand-carved woodwork of intricate design, embossed wood carvings and other signs of the lavishness of the old Austrian court.
Miramare Castle. At the end of the 19th century, in Barcola, between the cemetery and the San Bartolomeo church, at about Viale Miramare 48, the remains of a magnificent Roman villa by the sea, worthy of a prince, were discovered. This complex of buildings, now known as Villa Maritima of Barcola, with a first construction phase in the second ...
Miramare Castle at the beginning of the 20th century. In September 1857, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria appointed his brother Maximilian as Viceroy of the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia. After a short stop in Schönbrunn, where they met the Austrian Imperial family, the newlyweds went to Maximilian's Miramare Castle where they stayed for ...
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