Miramare Castle
![Miramare Castle](/Images/godic/202501/27/Miramare20249.jpg")
![Cesare dell'Acqua (1867), Maximilian receiving the Mexican delegation, being offered the crown of Mexico.](/Images/godic/202501/27/Dell'Acqua_Ernennung_Maximilians_zum_Kaiser_Mexikos0249.jpg")
![Miramare Castle, c. 1880](/Images/godic/202501/27/Miramare18800249.JPG")
![Miramare Castle interior](/Images/godic/202501/27/Castello_di_Miramare_0904_interior_40249.jpg")
Miramare Castle (Italian:Castello di Miramare; German:Schloss Miramar; Slovene:Grad Miramar) is a 19th-century castle on the Gulf of Trieste near Trieste, northeastern Italy. It was built from 1856 to 1860 for Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian and his wife, Charlotte of Belgium, later Emperor Maximilian I and Empress Carlota of Mexico, based on a design by Carl Junker.