Piazza della Vittoria took its current name after the second world war;
Images by Amy McPherson unless otherwise stated
Travel to Gorizia by train from Trieste or Venice, the closest airports with international flights.
Gorizia is one of those border cities that doesn’t feel quite one or the other. On the one hand, it is characteristically Italian: emotions are thrown around in the wild gestures of hands. Yet there is also a splash of Austro-Hungarian grandeur in the architecture, as well as a sense of the delicate, soft nature of Slovene culture.