Kromberk Castle
Seventeenth-century Coronini manor on the edge of Nova Gorica, seat of the Goriška Museum.
Kromberk Castle stands on the eastern edge of Nova Gorica, below the wooded slopes that rise towards the Trnovo forest. A fortified house is recorded on the site in the thirteenth century, but the present square manor with corner towers and an arcaded courtyard was built by the Coronini family in the first half of the seventeenth century. Emperor Ferdinand II granted the family a noble title in 1615 and the estate took the name Cronberg, remaining a family residence into the twentieth century.
The building burned during the fighting on the Isonzo front in 1916 and was damaged again in 1943, then rebuilt from 1954 as the seat of the Goriška Museum, founded two years earlier. Its ground and first floors hold permanent displays of art and cultural history, among them Baroque painting and nineteenth-century portraits, while the second floor is given over to temporary exhibitions, lectures and conferences. The grounds contain a park, an open-air lapidarium and an amphitheatre used for summer events.
Highlights
- Coronini manor with corner towers and an arcaded courtyard
- Permanent art and cultural history collections of the Goriška Museum
- Park with an open-air lapidarium and an amphitheatre
- Rebuilt from 1954 after fires in both world wars
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