Nicolò Pacassi

I am one of the key figures in eighteenth-century Gorizia and I have been the first appointed court architect to Maria Theresa. That quiet green corner in the heart of the city, the park of Palazzo Attems Santa Croce, present location of the Town Hall, is my project.

Dear visitor, I have been an Italian-Austrian architect, the first appointed at the court of empress Maria Theresa. I have been commissioned many works throughout the Austrian Empire, mainly in Vienna, Prague, Innsbruck and Gorizia, where I designed castles, royal palaces and cathedrals. The most significant work of my youth is Palazzo Attems-Petzsenstein, location of the Musei Provinciali in Gorizia. The original façade elements, characterized by a transitional style between Baroque and Rococo, are not those you can see today, as they have been renovated in a neoclassical style in the first half of the 19th Century. The project of the park of Palazzo Attems Santa Croce, present location of the Town Hall, is mine, too. The stylistic elements of the Austrian Baroque that I have added in my work, were impressive in eighteenth-century Gorizia, of which I am considered one of the key figures.