Cultural capital Gorizia

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The fountain in Piazza della Vittoria and the Jesuit church: Gorizia is the 2025 Capital of Culture.(Bild: Christina Natascha Kogler)

Görz, the former Nice of Austria, which was later divided by barbed wire, is this year's Capital of Culture and focuses on a borderless program. Aha-experiences from a trip to Klagenfurt's twin town!

When Austria was still by the sea, it had its own Nice: Görz, which means small mountain, and a castle is enthroned on a small mountain. A villa, i.e. a large estate or small village, of this name was first mentioned in a document in 1001. The Counts of Görz received the area as a fief - they also had possessions in Upper Carinthia and East Tyrol and a residence at Bruck Castle in Lienz.