Villa San Marco (former)

Villa San Marco

Hungarian family settles down in Ischl

In 1870, the villa was sold by its owners and constructors Kinsky and Wenkheim to the Hungarian Count Johann Nákó de Nagy-Szentmiklós. Nákó, who loved theater, had already visited the house with his family in previous years. His daughter, Mileva, married the Italian Duke of San Marco, Giulio Capece Zurlo. After the deaths of her husband and her father, Mileva administered the properties in Hungary and Italy on her own and devoted herself to the charity projects. She commissioned the construction of schools, hospitals and churches. In her last will, she bequeathed her villa in Ischl to the charity of the Sisters of Mercy of Saint Charles Borromeo, which ran a retirement home there until the beginning of the 21st century.

 Today, the former villa - with its historic rooms and facilities including the neighboring building (Kaltenbachstrasse 22), which is connected with the villa through a breezeway - is in a disastrously abandoned condition. This is really quite unfortunate because the property with its historic background deserves a new purpose, which it has been waiting for for a long time.

The villa was demolished at the beginning of 2025!