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During year 1855 the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Hapsburg was sailing nearby Trieste when, seized by an impetuous bora, he was forced to repair, aboard his war ship "Madonna della Salute" in the Grignano bay, asking for hospitality to a fisherman. The next day, admired by the enchanting beauty of the area, Archduke decided to buy a land and build a Norman style house, made of white blocks of Istrian stone, mandating the engineer Carlo Junker to trace the design on the basis of his brilliant directions. For three years, from Christmas 1860 to the spring of 1864, Miramare was a place of serenity to Maximilian and his wife, Archduchess Charlotte of Belgium, both loved by the citizens of Trieste for their generosity and kindness. When the crown of Mexico had been offered to the young prince he departed from Miramare with no return. After three years of unpopular kingdom Maximilian was executed by a Republican Court in Cerro de las Campanas, near Queretaro. The pain for Maxcimilian death drove the beautiful Carlotta insane: she was vainly begging the pope and kings for the salvation of her husband.
Miramare Castle, as a Maximilian’s bequest, was assigned to the Superintendency of Fine Arts, and from 1955 became a national museum. Today the tourists can visit the rooms of the castle in which are stored furniture and valuable works collected by the Emperor and the lush grounds of the castle where it is possible to admire rare species of trees such as the araucarias of Mexico and the two redwood trees, planted himself Archduke thirty meters high, the Indian bamboo and arbutus Asia.
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