THE HISTORY MUSEUM AT VILA VIPOLŽE
The Gorizia Museum has enriched the Vila Vipolže with an exhibition featuring the story of the mansion, entitled Vila Vipolže, Past and Present. View the models that represent the development of the Renaissance villa, which has been finalised after numerous extensions and reconstructions in the Baroque style and at the end of the 19th as well as at the beginning of the 20th century.Learn about the rich past of the Vila Vipolže, especially after the 15th century, when the Della Torre Counts became its owners. What was primarily the hunting lodge of the Gorizia Counts was purchased on 14 April 1460 by Febo della Torre, as can be seen in the exhibited document. The family often stayed in Vipolže and gave a greater glory to the building. One of the most famous personalities was Raymond VIth who was greatly appreciated by Rudolf IInd of the Hapsburgs, who between 1590 and 1593 appointed Raymond as the Hapsburg Ambassador to the Venetian court, and in 1597 he was appointed as the Ambassador to the Holy See.
There was a beautiful park surrounding the villa in the 16th century, and today we can see the oldest cypresses in Slovenia there. However, the villa was struck by some quite difficult events in the 19th and 20th centuries. After the fire in 1800 it was sold to the Attems family a year later. They used the building exclusively to store produce, especially wine, which was the main duty paid by the families who owned land. The villa was purchased at the end of the 19th century by Count Rudolf Erard Anton Baron Teuffenbach, who did not restore the old building but rather built a new one.
Since the 1960s a lot of effort has been invested in the restoration and revitalisation of the villa. So the sleeping beauty waited for the year 2013, when her blossoming finally started.
