Gradisca d'Isonzo

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Gradisca d'Isonzo
coat of arms
Gradisca d'Isonzo (Italy)
Gradisca d'Isonzo
Country Italy
region Friuli Venezia Giulia
Coordinates 45 ° 53 '  N , 13 ° 30'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 53 '20 "  N , 13 ° 29' 41"  E
height 32  m slm
surface 10 km²
Residents 6,414 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 641 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 34072
prefix 0481
ISTAT number 031008
Popular name Gradiscani
Patron saint San Pietro and San Paolo
Website official page

Gradisca d'Isonzo (German, outdated: Gradis (or Gradisch) am Sontig , Friulian : Gardiscja or Gardiscje , Slovenian : Gradišče ob Soči ) is a town in northern Italy with 6414 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in eastern Friuli near the border to Slovenia . The area of ​​the municipality is 10 square kilometers.

Gradisca d'Isonzo is a member of the I borghi più belli d'Italia association (The Most Beautiful Places in Italy).

history

The name Gradisca goes back to Slavic roots and means "fortified place". Under Venetian rule at the end of the 15th century it was expanded into a fortress against the approaching Turkish threat from the east. Leonardo da Vinci also participated in the multiple expansion and fortification works .

Gradisca Castle

In 1647, Emperor Ferdinand III split . Gradisca and its surrounding area from the Inner County of Gorizia and enfeoffed it as the Fürstete Grafschaft Gradisca  - for a high fee - to the Eggenbergers . The family died out in 1717, and the county fell back to the Habsburgs through the treaty of inheritance ; they united these with Gorizia to form the Fürsteten Grafschaft Gorizia and Gradisca , which existed as crown land until 1918.

During the First World War , the place was on the front line between Austria and Italy, where twelve terrible battles, the Isonzo battles , took place. In 1918 the area came to Italy.

Cityscape and landmarks

Today the city is dominated by the mighty fort . During the Austrian rule the fort was used as a prison.

The Enoteca Regionale, called La Serenissima, is located in the 15th century Palazzo dei Provveditori in the old town . There you can taste and buy the finest wines of the Friuli region . Gradisca d'Isonzo is located in the area of ​​the Collio wines. Remains of the mighty city wall are further sights of this small border town.

Culture

The patron saints of the city are Saints Peter and Paul

From 2003 to 2008 the MAGIS Gradisca Film Studies Spring School took place every March / April in the Palazzo del Monte di Pietà . It will be organized from 2009 in nearby Gorizia by the University of Udine in cooperation with numerous European universities, archives and film institutions.

Town twinning

Gradisca has twinned cities with Althofen in Austria (1993), Kastav in Croatia (2003) and Ibrány in Hungary (2004).

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

  • Illustration by Frans Hogenberg from 1617: Actual outline of the part of the Friuli landscape, in which there was a war between Ertzhertzog Ferdinand, the crowned King of Behem and the Venice army, both places and vesting opportunities can be seen ( digital copy )
Commons : Gradisca d'Isonzo  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Grädisch in the Topographia Austriacarum (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts
Wikisource: Grädisch in the appendix of the Topographia Austriacarum (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

literature

  • Gradisca In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon. Volume 8, Leipzig 1907, pp. 205-206, on zeno.org .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ^ I borghi più belli d'Italia. Borghipiubelliditalia.it, accessed August 4, 2017 (Italian).
  3. ^ Manfred Scheuch : Austria - Province, Empire, Republic . A historical atlas. Das Beste, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-87070-588-4 , Der Weg zur Adria , p. 43 .
  4. ↑ Marko Simić: On the trail of the Isonzo front. Mohorjeva Hermagoras, Klagenfurt-Laibach-Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85013-884-4
  5. ^ Comuni Italiani