A small and pleasant city, where the Habsburg past still lives on in the palaces and gardens, Gorizia is a symbol of the troubled history of the European twentieth century.

Territory of the Austro-Hungarian Empire before the Great War, annexed to Italy in 1918, it experiences first-hand the dramatic events involving the eastern border of Italy during Fascism and the Second World War.

At the end of the conflict it loses a part of the periphery in favor of the then Yugoslavia and is divided by the so-called “Gorizia wall”, erected in Transalpina square, which becomes one of the symbols of the political-ideological separation between Western and Eastern Europe during the the cold war years.