Tivoli Castle is a mansion

Mansion

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 in Ljubljana

Ljubljana

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, the capital of Slovenia

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The mansion is located in the city's Tivoli Park

Tivoli, Ljubljana

Tivoli Park is the largest park in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. It is located on the outskirts of the Center district, stretching to the Šiška district to the north, the Vič district to the south, and the Rožnik district to the west. The park was laid out during the French imperial...

 (part of the Rožnik

Rožnik

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 neighborhood), north-west of (and visible from) the city centre, at the foot of Rožnik

Rožnik

The Rožnik District or simply Rožnik is a city district of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. It consists of much of Rožnik Hill and includes also Tivoli Park. The Ljubljana Zoo is located here....

 hill. It is the terminus of the Jakopič Promenade (formerly the Lantieri Promenade), itself the continuation of Cankar Street.

Built in the 17th century atop the ruins of a previous Renaissance-period castle, the mansion was initially owned by the Jesuits, but came into the possession of the Diocese of Ljubljana

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ljubljana

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 following the 1773 suppression of the Jesuit order. Used as the bishop's summer residence, it was surrounded with orchards.

In the mid-19th century, it was bought by the Austrian emperor

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 Francis Joseph I, who in 1852 presented it as a gift to the veteran Habsburg marshal

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 Joseph Radetzky. Radetzky renovated the mansion in the Neoclassical style, giving it its present appearance, and spent much of his retirement in it with his wife Francisca von Strassoldo Grafenberg, a local Carniola

Carniola

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n noblewoman.

Twelve years after Radetzky's death in 1858, a statue of the famous general was erected on the plaze at the top of the stairs leading to the castle, guarded by four cast-iron dogs made by the sculptor Anton Fernkorn. The monument was removed after the dissolution of Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary

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 in 1918, and placed in the National Museum of Slovenia

National Museum of Slovenia

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, but the dogs have remained in their original places.

In 1863, the mansion was bought by the Municipality of Ljubljana, who used it as (among other things) a poorhouse, later subdividing ot into condominiums. In 1967, it was again renovated and became the venue for the International Graphic Arts Centre .

An alpine-style building called the Švicarija ("Swissery", formerly the Hotel Tivoli) stands behind the mansion. The Jesenkova educational footpath behins alongside it.