Baron Gondola was a improving landlord and horticulturist of Lapad, introduced in the second half of the XIX century the brussels sprouts, blue cabbage, oil, grapes and other vegetables, later he founded an Agronomy school in Lapad, Gruž.

Francesco was the first to install in the old city electrical energy to light the streets; and was in 1894 who gave permission for Hotel Imperial's construction and thus to begin the policy of promoting tourism, which lasts until today.

[citation needed] He wrote to the Times magazine, asking for further help for the refugees; his letter appeared on 12 April 1875.

[citation needed] More than 150,000 people took refuge in Austro-Hungary in 1875 due to the Herzegovinian rebellion.

In 1889 the Serb political circle in Dubrovnik supported baron Francesco Gondola, the candidate of the Autonomist Party (Dalmatians who were pro-Italian), in the 1890 election to the Parliament of Dalmatia, against the candidate of the People's Party (Dalmatians who were pro-Croatian).