The article aims to analyse the development of health tourism in the Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca from to the second half of the 19th century to the beginning of the Great War, i.e. in the period when the county began to experience an increased investment in tourism. It highlights the period when the county saw the development of as many as three different locations (Gorizia, Grado, and Monfalcone) in the context of a general trend of improving one’s health and/or therapy through “new” practices;