Gorizia (ita)

Gorizia

Gorizia ranks 2,208th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind St Pancras, London, Straits Settlements, and Sigulda. Memorable people born in Gorizia include Carlo Rubbia, Graziadio Isaia Ascoli, and Nora Gregor. Memorable people who died in Gorizia include Antonio Sant'Elia, Charles X of France, and Cecilia Seghizzi. Gorizia has been the birth place of many soccer players, and physicists and the death place of many noblemen, and architects. Gorizia is located in Italy.

Gorizia is a town and comune (municipality) in northeastern Italy, in the autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. It is located at the foot of the Julian Alps, bordering Slovenia. It is the capital of the Regional decentralization entity of Gorizia and is a local center of tourism, industry, and commerce. Since 1947, a twin town of Nova Gorica has developed on the other side of the modern-day Italy–Slovenia border. The region was subject to territorial dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia after World War II: after the new boundaries were established in 1947 and the old town was left to Italy, Nova Gorica was built on the Yugoslav side. The two towns constitute a conurbation, which also includes the Slovenian municipality of Šempeter-Vrtojba. Since May 2011, these three towns have been joined in a common trans-border metropolitan zone, administered by a joint administration board. Read more on Wikipedia