Pietro Nobile was an Austro-Hungarian

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architect and builder born in Campestro (

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), Switzerland, 11 November 1774 –

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, 7 November 1854. He is regarded as one of the most prominent architects of the late classicism in Vienna, and the leading architect of the Habsburg court. 36202871 His father moved the family to

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where the young Pietro attended school. He continued to be educated in

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between 1801 and 1806. In 1807 he was appointed engineer office for construction in charge of Trieste,

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and

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. In 1810 he was officially appointed chief engineer for construction of bridges and roads in the

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n coast in Istria. He designed the coastal road from

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, made new plans, sketches and drawings of monuments such as the

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, the Temple of Augustus and the

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. He also designed St. Peter's Church standing on

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, Slovenia and

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. For the protection of monuments in Pula he did more than anyone else before him. In 1819 he became head of the department of architecture at the

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. His grave is located in Vienna's

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(section 14 A, No. 46 A), transferred from

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. In 1894, Vienna Penzing (14th District) and Rudolf Fünfhaus (15th District), and the Nobilegasse were named after him.

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