Show GORIZIA G TOO TOE HAD IA ITS ROMANCES I I fJ v ORIZIA whose whoso capture marked th the G GORIZIA first signal gain of or tho Italians on the Isonzo front In many months Is 15 the su subject of ot today's war geography bulletin of ot the National l Geographic i society With a population of or mainly Italians German Gorz Con Is the principal city elty of or tho the Isonzo valley alley tho capital of oC the Austrian principality of ot Gorizia and Gradisca It Is charmingly ly situated ted on the left bank bang of or the Isonzo river about el ht elp ht miles cast east of or tho Austro boundary line lino s some ome thirty five miles northwest of or Trieste lee b by rail rall northeast northcut of ot Venice and nearly nearl OO miles southwest of oC Vienna Gorizia has iris never or had hall a particularly strong appeal for American tourists ns as lire are i cathe cathedral ral Its antiquities s e few a few a dating from the fourteenth century and rebuilt In the tho eighteenth and the ancient castle ensUe of or the old Counts of ot Gorizia perched on Castle hill where a military barracks was as situated at nt tho outbreak of oC th the present war but war but It I t is popular with the Viennese as a i e resort owing to Its salubrious cUma climate te The fhe manufacturing Industries of ot the town are varied and important Including including ing silk cotton leather paper and match factories a liquor much prized th throughout the Levant LC t I Imade Is made here and awl there is also a n. brisk trade In In candied candled fruits I Gorizia Is mentioned mention ell In history as earl early as the tho eleventh century and rc re- re i j a n chart charter or centuries later Its Ita chief chief distinction was not to conic com until tho the nineteenth when it became the asylum of Charles X tho last of ot the elder line Uno of or Bourbons to to occupy tho the throne of ot France This rids sovereign so who abdicated too late to tu save aavo the tiro crown for his grandson hopefully hopefully hope hope- fully tully styled Henry V Is described b by historians as a 11 typical Bourbon who shu never ne learned anything and never nC forgot forgot for for- got ot anything After his retirement from Crom Paris Yaris following the revolution re of ot Jul July 27 29 7 9 1830 1530 ho took up his hb re residence at Gorizia where he died of oC cholera six years later Beside the tomb o of Charles X In the Franciscan of ot Ca I which overlooks o Gorizia from a n a hill to tho the east cast is burled tho the Bourbons Bourbon's heir better better l known to history as Comte d de I than by the kindly title of or Henry V V. This claimant to the French throne was called the enfant du nih-acle nih on account of ur hi bl his birth seven seven seven sev sev- en months after aCter the assassination of or his Ills father ath r tho the Due Uc Ie Berry Bern the tho occasion of his christening with wa water ater ti ter brought from the River Jordan b by Chateaubriand he was presented with the celebrated castle of oC I which had been bought from the widow of Napoleons Napoleon's marshal Berthier b by en enthusiastic en- en Thus the royal of ot the famous fa famous ta- ta bAb baby acquired Jo possession Francis r I Henry 11 II residence o of 4 HO 0 of whose and Louis XIV in one of ot chambers the first performance Mollere's Molleres loll ros ro's great oat comic farce ruce Bourgeois was staged He lie died three thirty years ears ao no at nt si Gorl-si brought to arid and his bo body was to be placed place near that o of his grandsire grand grand- rand sire and of ot his uncle ur lc the Due DAngott ionic Charles' Charles son SOli Seventeen c miles north pf of IB 15 IBan an nil air line is also capture captured capture nt drive o by b the tile Italians In the present Dante i is supposed to to have ha written som p of the cantos of uC the Divine Comedy in this town mi un the Ison Isonzo |