Miramare Castle
Sign in to saveAlso known as Castello di Miramare, Miramar, Miramare Castle in Trieste, Museo Storico del Castello di Miramare
castle in Trieste, Italy
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Trieste
- Area
- 3000
- Founded by
- Maximilian I of Mexico
- Owned by
- Maximilian I of Mexico
- Employees
- 37
- Image
- Castello di Miramare (Trieste) (7).jpg
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- Commons category
- Castello di Miramare (Trieste)
- structural engineer
- Carl Junker
- architectural style
- Carl Junker
- Commons gallery
- Castello di Miramare
- phone number
- +39-040-224143
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- postal code
- 34151
- street address
- Viale Miramare 11, 34151 Trieste
- Commons Institution page
- Castello di Miramare
- native label
- Miramare
- inception
- 1860-00-00
- commissioned by
- House of Habsburg
- visitors per year
- 254265
- uses
- digital library
- Wi-Fi access
- no
- collection or exhibition size
- 2000
- has facility
- bookstore
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Encyclopedic overview
Miramare Castle
Miramare Castle (Italian: Castello di Miramare; Slovene: Grad Miramar; German: Schloss Miramar; Spanish: Castillo de Miramar) is a 19th-century castle direct on the Gulf of Trieste between Barcola and Grignano in Trieste, northeastern Italy. It was built from 1856 to 1860 for Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian and his wife, Charlotte of Belgium, later Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico and Empress Carlota of Mexico, based on a design by Carl Junker.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Miramare Castle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.