Located in Trieste, northeastern Italy, between Barcola and Grignano, lies the 19th-century Miramare Castle. Based on a design by Carl Junker, it was constructed for the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian and his wife, Charlotte of Belgium, who would later become Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico and Empress Carlota of Mexico, between 1856 and 1860. The archduke created a vast 22-hectare seaside and cliff park as part of the castle-grounds. The archduke thoroughly redesigned the landscaping with a variety of tropical tree and plant types. Ferdinand Maximilian, 1832–1867, of the House of Habsburg–Lorraine, the younger brother of Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria, gave the order to build Miramare Castle and its grounds. When Maximilian arrived in Trieste in 1850, accompanied by his brother Charles, he was eighteen years old. He then promptly embarked on a brief voyage to the Near East. His goal to sail and see the world was validated by this voyage. He was made an officer in 1852, and the Imperial Navy appointed him Commander in Chief in 1854. He made the decision to go to Trieste, where he had a house erected with a view of the sea and a park fitting of his status and name. Tradition has it that the archduke picked that barren rocky spur of limestone origin as the location for his house after taking refuge in the small harbor of Grignano during a sudden storm in the Gulf. The entire complex was dubbed Miramar when it was initially acquired at the start of March 1856, presumably in remembrance of the residence of Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Koháry in Pena, Portugal [Information and Image Credit : Miramare_Castle, Wikipedia] [Wikipedia-Link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miramare_Castle ] [Image : Miramare Castle; Wikipedia-Image-Author : Michał Bulsa] [Image Availed Under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License; (Please Relate to Individual Image URLs for More Usage Property and Sharing, Remixing or Attributing the Work)] [License-Link : https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en ] [Original Wikipedia-Image-Source-Link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Castello_di_Miramare_(Trieste)_(7).jpg ] #History#Architecture#Castles
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