HISTORIC GORIZIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9171, 11 October 1915, Page 7

HISTORIC GORIZIA

WAB. CENTRE A FORMER ROYAL BURIAL PLACE.

Mentioned almost daily in the war dispatones riwn. tne. Itaio-Austrian front, the vlxttle town of. Gorina ■ has gained 1 considerable' prominence of ,'late'. Besides peing' the boutre of important military operations’ Gdiizia is of interest- because of its historic associations. Lying between Veuloo v a.ilct ll'ieste, not tar from the Adriatic," Qorhsia’has a population of about twenty-thousand: The town -has been in Austrian possession for more than live centuries and its pleasant climate.has earned it the name of “the Austrian Nice.” In the outskirts on a hiU -is a- .Franciscan monastery; the road to which is marked by the fourteen . stations of the Way of the .Cross; From .the esplanade; in front,of the monastery church an extensive view of the surrounding country .is obtained. Below, spreads the town, with the ancient chateau of the. Counts of Gorisia and the Villa Boeckmann, once' the winter residence of .the Count deChambord, towering over the leas'pretentious neighbouring houses. A little further ofi one can .trace the’capricious course of-the Isonso river, the. bed of which is-said to bo the burial' place of Attila, > the Hun chieftain. - 1 In' the distance lies the Carso limestone plateau, sheltering the-magnifi-cent castles of. Dnino, belonging. to; the -House of Hohenlohfi.ru and Miramar, which used . to be the favourite residence of Archduke Maximilian, later Emperor of The horizon is bounded" by -Trftsta, a chain nj show,

covered Alp peaks, the Venetian , plain and the Adriatic. . In the ' little chapel, of St. Xx>ui», in tlie right wing of the big Franciscan church, the bodies of King Charles- X. of Prance, the Duke and Duchess d’Au-' gonleme and the Duchess of Parma, had their resting place until 1883, when they., wore removed to a large .vault under'the high altar. In this vault there are aiz . sarcophagi, .three on- each side of a- marble crucifix. raised on a high pedestal. ’ Charles X. .has the Duke d'Angouleme on his right and the Dnchass on his left. In the other group - the sarcophagus of King Henry V. (the Count de Chambord) has been -placed between those of the Countess de Chambord and the Duchess of Parma- On a black marble slab behind the sarcophagus of - the Count de Chambord is the following inscrip tiolf"Here rests the"high born and very excellent Prince Henry, fifth of the name, by the grace of God’ King of Prance and Navarre. Born in Paris September 29. 1820. Died at Prohsdorf August 24, 1883/’ Over his tomb is raised an immense white banner emblazoned with the royal fienr delis. in compliance with the order givpp, J>j ' the (Count in his manic.