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  Gorizia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gorizia (Slovenian: Gorica, German: Görz, Friulian: Gurize) is a small town at the foot of the Alps, in northeastern Italy, on the border with Slovenia.
It is the capital of the Province of Gorizia, and is a local center of tourism, industry, and commerce.
Gorizia was seriously damaged and changed hands again in 1916 as the front line ran in its area for two years with several battles fought nearby until the Central Powers pushed the Italians back to the Piave River in late 1917.
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 Gorizia - Friuli Venezia Giulia - Italy: the Municipalities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The Province of Gorizia has a surface area of 466 sq km, with a total population of about 136,000 inhabitants.
In 1866 with the III War of Italian Independence the Province of Udine from the Livenza River to the Judrio River, from the Adriatic Sea to Pontebba bacame part of the Kingdom of Italy, while the localities of Gorizia, Gradisca d'Isonzo, Cervignano, Aquileia, Aiello, Tarvisio and part of Pontebba remained still under Austria.
The Province of Trieste was established in 1923 and in 1927 the Province of Gorizia was separated from Udine including the territories of the District of Monfalcone and the District of Idrica.
www.italyworldclub.com /friuli/gorizia   (218 words)

  
 Euromosaic - Slovenian in Italy
In the Province of Gorizia, there is a classical lycée, a teacher training school (with a department for nursery school teachers), a commercial school and a Slovenian course at the secondary technical school for industry with Slovenian as the medium of instruction, total pupil numbers being 321 in the 1985/86 academic year.
In the Province of Trieste there is a language lycée (with a classics department), a commercial school (with a department for surveyors), a secondary technical school for industry and craft and a teacher training school (with a department for nursery school teachers), which had a total number of 891 pupils in the academic year.
In the Provinces of Trieste and Gorizia, Slovenian is the medium of instruction in the Slovenian institutions mentioned above, while this is not the case in the Province of Udine.
www.uoc.es /euromosaic/web/document/eslove/an/i1/i1.html   (4811 words)

  
 Viaggiando SUS - turismo
The city of Gorizia was originally a small village at the ford of the Isonzo river, not far away from the main communication routes between Aquileia and Lubiana.
After that the two world-wide conflicts hit Gorizia in a ruinous way, in 1947, with the peace treaty, the river side city was divided in parts by the Italian Jugoslav border: the historical Italian Gorizia found itself side by side with a new one, in fact as called Nova Gorica, today an exclusively Slovenian city.
Gorizia, thanks to its geographic position, represents the natural centre of the new geopolitical systems that look towards to the Countries of the East, to other cultures and new markets.
www.viaggiando-sus.it /eng/turismo_itinerari_vis.cfm?ID=41   (505 words)

  
 Trips 2 Italy | Trip planning and description of Gorizia Friuli Venezia Giulia Italy | Travel guide and information of ...
Gorizia is nestled in the midst of green country, in a delightful valley of the foot of the Julian Alps and the Karst.
The Castle di Gorizia is the symbol of the city.
Gorizia is the capital of the Gorizia province on the Isonzo River and the Slovenian border.
www.trips2italy.com /Gorizia   (185 words)

  
 Gorizia, Italy. Travel guide & tourist information by Hostelbookers.com
The castle that dominates the old centre was the power-base of the dukes of Gorizia, who ruled the area for four centuries.
Probably the strangest sight in Gorizia is the crypt in the Franciscan monastery at Castagnavizza – Kostanjevica, rather, for the monastery lies across the border in Nova Gorica.
After Louis Philippe was ousted by the bloodless revolution of July 1830, the Bourbons were exiled from France; the family eventually arrived in Gorizia in 1836, and the Habsburgs allowed them to stay.
www.hostelbookers.com /guides/italy/gorizia   (834 words)

  
 Gorizia Province (Friuli - Venezia Giulia, Italy)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The gonfalone, reproducing the arms of the Provincia, with a sky blue and yellow background, richly embroidered with gold and in the prescribed dimension, was granted by Royal Decree dated 7 November 1929.
One would guess that Gorizia province was the legal successor of the unit in 1929 that was granted the arms.
Another question that seems is not unique for Gorizia (may similar examples over here in Croatia) - how come the gonfalone was granted a week before the coat of arms, and still it includes that same coat of arms, which in theory did not exist until the end of the next week?
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/it-go.html   (269 words)

  
 collio english   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Enology has been practiced in the Gorizia area from time immemorial and, over the centuries, it has assumed great importance in terms of the district's economy.
From the vitivinicultural standpoint, the Collio Goriziano is divided from the Colli Orientali del Friuli only by an administrative border, the line separating the provinces of Udine and Gorizia.
In both districts, the soil is composed of marl and sandstone and the climatic patterns are not much different.
www.roncada.34x.com /html/collio_english.html   (249 words)

  
 Province of Gorizia Information
Gorizia (Italian: Provincia di Gorizia) is a province in the autonomous Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy.
It has an area of 466 sq km, and a total population of 136,491 (2001).
There are 25 communes in the province ([1]).
www.bookrags.com /Gorizia_Province   (55 words)

  
 Archivio di stato di Udine
It was enclosed to the North and East by the Austrian territories of Klagenfurt, Plezzo, Tolmino and Gorizia, while to the West were the territories of Portogruaro, Oderzo, Conegliano, Vittorio Veneto and Cadore (the last being part of the Kingdom of Italy).
The Italian Province of Trieste became an independent administrative unit from 1923 on.
Consequentially, the pre-existent territory of the Province of Gorizia was modified reducing its extension.
archivi.beniculturali.it /ASUD/consulenza_ing.htm   (1560 words)

  
 SLOVENSKO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
In Gorizia the Slovenes are entitled to their own schools.
The Special Statute annexed to the London Memorandum of 1954 establishes the right of the Slovene minority in Trieste to use their language in official contacts with administrative and legal bodies, and to receive a response in that language.
In some communities in Gorizia the same rights are recognized as well, but not in Udine at all.
www.minority2000.net /Gr-75/t39gb.htm   (513 words)

  
 Ceramiche Florimar S.r.L.
Gorizia, firma nastavlja proširivanjem svoje djelatnosti na podruèju obadviju provincija i republika Hrvatske i Slovenije.
Man wollte damit den Kunden in beiden Provinz Gorizia und Triest, sowohl auch in Slowenien und Kroatien besser dienen zu können.
In 1988 the activity was enlarged with the opening of a new exposition room of 2000 mq in Monfalcone, in the province of Gorizia, to help the meeting of the society with public coming from the provinces of Gorizia, Trieste and from Slovenia and Croatia too.
www.florimar.it /chisiamo.htm   (551 words)

  
 Delicious Italy - the Province of Gorizia in Friuli Venezia Giulia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
A.J. The municipal official believes he has the measure of me. “This is your firrrst time, I think,” he says with a discomforting leer, before adding, “in the region of Gorizia.” We’re in the oxter of Italy, geographically speaking.
I’m there as part of the first ever delegation of journalists, invited to consider Gorizia and the land around the Isonzo River as a tourist destination in its own right.
At the Museum of the Great War in Gorizia solemn schoolchildren stare at a photograph of what looks like a snap of a local park, except a body hangs from each tree.
www.deliciousitaly.com /Friulitour18.htm   (526 words)

  
 L'Isola di Grado
Grado and the Lagoon are an original landscape, artistic and anthropological microcosm within the Region Friuli Venezia Giulia and the Province of Gorizia as well.
Its intricate and remote historical events are linked up with the history of Aquileia from the time of the first barbarian invasions, and with the history of the Republic of Venice.
The spa became well known during the reign of the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Josef who in 1892 appointed that Grado should become the Official Spa of the Empire : today this little town is one of the favourite Italian destination of the thermal tourism.
www.grado.it /grado_uk.html   (395 words)

  
 Province de Gorizia - Wikipédia
La province est composée de 25 communes dont voici la liste.
Au total, la province compte 136 183 habitants répartis sur 466 km².
Dans cette province, il existe une quinzaines d'écoles dont la langue d'enseignement est le slovène (avec les programmes italiens) sauf pour les cours de langue italienne.
fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Province_de_Gorizia   (181 words)

  
 Bed and Breakfast in the Province of Gorizia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Bed and Breakfast in the Province of Gorizia
Province of Gorizia, Friuli Venezia Giulia Region (Friaul), Italy
B and B in the Province of Gorizia
italyworldclub.com /friuli/gorizia/bedandbreakfast_province_gorizia.htm   (44 words)

  
 Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Friuli Venezia Giulia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Continuing along we arrive in Pordenone, formerly known as "Portus Naonis", a highly industrial city which, however, bears witness to the past in the beautiful ancient part of the town.
From Valcellina (in the province of Pordenone) to the valleys of Carnia and Tarvisio (in the province of Udine) there is one astonishing mountain panorama after another.
In this area, which can stand its own against the Dolomites any day, there are natural parks and tourist resorts with all the facilities necessary for skiing in winter and trekking and climbing in summer.
www.esteri.it /eng/7_45_109_180.asp   (876 words)

  
 Borgo Conventi
The Collio area is located in the southeast of Friuli, in the province of Gorizia, and borders Slovenia to the east and the Alps to the north.
It is a hilly land with a temperate climate, hot and arid summers, with generally wet springs.
The wine from the Collio area boasts an ancient tradition: ancient Greek authors mention a Gorizian wine called “Adriano”; Cassiodorus, a fifth-century historian and minister to Emperor Theodoric, called Gorizian wines “well-blessed”; and throughout the Middle Ages wine from the region of Gorizia was regularly exported abroad.
www.borgoconventi.it /english/collio.asp   (461 words)

  
 IES - Research projects
Regarding the realization of the project, the head of the project decided upon methodological modification of the project in such a manner that the territorial principle was used as the starting point: the Province of Gorizia, the Province of Udine.
Within an individual territorial »unit«, »minority« elements as well as processes of political socialization and the building up of (national minority) political culture were analyzed apart from ethnic elements.
The final text deals with the problems of political identity of the Slovene minority in the Province of Gorizia.
www2.arnes.si /~ljinv16/inv/pa_mk.htm   (340 words)

  
 Regional: Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Like its hybridized name, the northeastern region is a patchwork of provinces, cities and towns with diverse populations.
Coffee-obsessed triestini take pride in the local coffee company Illy, whose founder is credited with having invented the first automatic, pressed-air espresso machine, which he called the illetta, in 1935.The province of Gorizia, together with Trieste, composes the formerly separate region of Venezia Giulia.
Udine and Pordenone exhibit elements of Venetian influence in their architecture while the rugged northern swath of the region, Carnia, is dominated by the Dolomite Mountains and parts of the Alps.
www.italiancookingandliving.com /food/regional/friuli_venezia.html   (436 words)

  
 Bed and Breakfast Gorizia - Gorizia inns and guest houses
Distances in km.: Grado 43, Udine 30, Trieste 53, Monfalcone 22, Gorizia 13 Open all year round Restaurants 50 m Parking: yes Spoken Languages:...
In a gorgeous villa located on the carsic area hear Gorizia, we offer single and double rooms witn private bathrooms.
The Bed & Breakfast "Al Castello" is located in the very heart of Gorizia, just on the slope of the Medieval Castle.
www.bed-and-breakfast-in-italy.com /bed_and_breakfast_gorizia.cfm   (204 words)

  
 Pax Friuli Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
To the southeast, that part of the former Free Territory of Trieste that is now an integral part of Italy extends as a narrow corridor between the Karst (Carso) limestone plateau and the Adriatic Sea, as far as the city of Trieste.
The rise of the Roman Catholic patriarchate of Aquileia to prominence in the 11th century brought Friuli and the Istrian Peninsula, as well as the seacoast, under the control of this ecclesiastical sovereignty.
This double presence caused a marked diversification of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region into a "Venetian Friuli" (what are now the provinces of Pordenone and Udine) and an "Austrian Friuli" (the present-day province of Gorizia), Trieste, on the other hand, which was associated with Austria as early as 1382, managed to maintain an independent status.
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 FURLAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Friulian (or Eastern Ladin) is spoken in the provinces of Udine, Pordenone and in parts of the province of Gorizia and of Venice.
There are no official data, but it is estimated that of a total of 1,230,000 inhabitants in the Region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, about 550,000 people speak Friulan.
Friulan is used in some state nursery schools of the province of Udine in pilot projects of bilingual pre-school education.
www.minority2000.net /Gr-75/t35gb.htm   (309 words)

  
 HOTELS IN GORIZIA - gorizia hotels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Hotels in Gorizia, Gorizia hotel, holidays in Gorizia, Accommodation in Gorizia, weekend in Gorizia
Gorizia is a small town at the foot of the Alps, in northeastern Italy, on the border with Slovenia.
Again like Trieste, it's a major shopping town for Slovenes, which explains the large number of electrical goods, clothes and food shops, and the good cafés and restaurants.
www.alberghi-in-italia.it /hotels/gorizia_hotels.htm   (116 words)

  
 Tetreus Friuli-Venezia Giulia Travel Page - VirtualTourist.com
On the one hand lies Friuli, heir to the patriarchate of Aquileia and the Venetian Fatherland of Friuli, that goes from the Livenza to the Isonzo, including the provinces of Pordenone, Udine and part of the province of Gorizia.
On the other lie the territories of Trieste and Gorizia, what is left of Venezia Giulia after the redrawing of borders after the Second World War, and which combines the Austrian influence with a past history of strong administrative and economic autonomy.
As regards the province of Trieste, on the Carso every year the rite of the Carsic Wedding is held, celebrated according to the old traditions.
members.virtualtourist.com /m/1ea70/3c   (1380 words)

  
 Carlo Rubbia - Biography & Achievements
Carlo Rubbia was born in the town of Gorizia, Italy on March 31, 1934.
His father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and his mother was an elementary school teacher.
At the end of the World War II most of the province of Gorizia was taken over by Yugoslavia.
www.ultimateitaly.com /peoples/carlo-rubbia.html   (1502 words)

  
 Gorizia City Guides : Gorizia
In what was once the Jewish quarter, the Synagogue, at Via Ascoli 19 (Mon, Fri and Sat 6-8pm; summer Tues and Thurs 6-8pm, winter 4-7pm; free), is also of Neoclassical design; the serene interior resembles those in Venice's Ghetto.
Probably the strangest sight in Gorizia is the crypt in the Franciscan monastery at Castagnavizza - Kostanjevica, rather, for the monastery lies across the border in Nova Gorica.
If that's full, try the comfortable but bland Alla Transalpina at Via Caprin 30 (tel 0481.530.291; L90,000-120,000/€46.48-61.98); the restaurant is overpriced, and it's a good 2km northeast of the centre, right on the Slovene border, but bus #1 runs every 15min from the train station through town, terminating opposite the hotel.
www.travelpages.com /italy/gorizia/guides   (877 words)

  
 Delicious Italy - First time visit to the province of Gorizia
In fact, what’s surprising is the absence of that cultural blandness you would expect from a region where so many different influences have been brought to bear.
One diehard we meet admits: “I put a flower on Emperor Franz Joseph’s grave, every time I go to Vienna.” The elegant mansions that line the main streets of Gorizia were built around the turn of the 20th Century as summer retreats for Austro-Hungarian aristocrats.
I begin each morning by pounding the banks of the river in the hope of working off some excess calories from the previous day.
www.deliciousitaly.com /visualizza.php?Id=470®ione_id=6   (431 words)

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