The Historical Museum and the Park of the Miramare Castle is a museum located near Trieste. The Castle enjoys an enchanting panoramic position; it is located sheer above the sea, on the tip of the promontory of Grignano, about ten kilometers from the city and is surrounded by a luxuriant park full of precious botanical species, created in symbiosis with the dwelling. Built between 1856 and 1860 on commission of Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Habsburg to live there with his wife, Princess Charlotte of Belgium, the Castle offers the unique testimony of a luxurious noble residence preserved with its original interior furnishings. Designed by the Austrian engineer Carl Junker, the building features an eclectic style as professed by the architectural fashion of the time. The Mediterranean scents and the austere European forms recreate an absolutely unique scenario in Miramare thanks also to the presence of the sea, which dictates the blue color of the tapestries on the ground floor of the Castle and inspires the names and furnishings of different environments. The museum has more than twenty-two rooms. The ground floor, originally intended for private apartments, has an intimate and familiar character, while the first floor, characterized by red tapestries with imperial symbols, was the representative one, aimed at celebrating the Habsburg-Lorraine family and reserved for distinguished guests.

The Miramare Park, with its twenty-two hectares of surface, is the result of the demanding intervention carried out over many years by Massimiliano d'Asburgo on the karst promontory of Grignano, originally almost completely devoid of vegetation. For the design, Massimiliano used the work of Carl Junker and the Bohemian gardener Anton Jelinek; large quantities of fertile soil and numerous varieties of trees and shrubs were imported, many of which of extra-European origin. The works were constantly followed by Maximilian even after his transfer to Mexico, from where he sent a copious number of plants. The Park, which in the intentions of the client was to be an experimental reforestation and acclimatization station for rare botanical species, is a complex both natural and artificial, where it is still possible today to breathe a unique atmosphere, steeped in meanings closely linked to the relationship between man and nature that was typical of the time. Exhibitions The Castle and the Ex Stables regularly host exhibitions and cultural activities inside them.