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Pop.: 8,753
Area: 45,16 sq. km, 144 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Aurisina, Ceroglie, Malchina, Medeazza, Precenico, Prepotto, San Pelagio, San Giovanni di Duino, Santa Croce, Sistiana, Slivia, Ternova piccola, Villaggio del Pescatore, Visogliano
Town Hall: Via Aurisina Cave, 25 - 34013 Duino Aurisina
Phone.: 040.2017111 Fax: 040.200245
www.comune.duino-aurisina.ts.it
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The wide bay of
Sistiana, with
its lidos and a
marina, is a
Mediterranean
marine oasis, protected by a
high perpendicular limestone
face. From the road fork at
Sistiana the Passeggiata
Naturalistica Rilke departs,
a naturalist walk named in
honour of poet Rainer Maria
Rilke, who was a guest at
Duino in 1911-12: winding
on the cliff edge for 2 km,
the walk offers a spectacular
view, where the sweetness of
the Mediterranean and the
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roughness of the Karst are
blended. The town of Duino
is overlooked by the 15thcentury
castle, below which
a rock dropping sheer to the
sea resembles a petrified
woman and is known as the
White Dame. In the
hinterland, the villages of
Malchina, Prosecco, San
Pelagio and Prepotto still
show the typical Carso stone
houses. Some caves are
worth a mention: the Pocala
(where numerous findings of
Ursus Spelaeus were detected
as well as the presence of
middle Palaeolithic man),
the Azzurra of Samatorza
(Mesolithic-Roman age),
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and
the shelter of Visogliano
(Middle Palaeolithic). Not far
from Aurisina, the limestone
quarries have been used for
more than two thousand years
and still show parts of the
Roman quarries. The church
of S. Giovanni in Tuba (15th
century, on early Christian
remains) is built near the
mouth of River Timavo;
among the luxurious
vegetation, the resurgences
can be seen of three branches
of River Timavo which,
springing from Monte
Nevoso and flowing through
the town of S. Canziano in
Slovenia, suddenly subsides
in a pothole and reappears
on the surface after 35 km of
underground flow.
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A long and narrow strip of land between
Slovenia and the sea, projecting
eastwards to Istria, the province of Trieste
holds the curious record of being the
smallest in Italy. It is divided into six
municipalities, north-to-south:
Duino-Aurisina, Sgonico,
Monrupino, San Dorligo
della Valle and
Muggia. Trieste,
the regional capital city, is
isolated in the middle, facing
the sea. An important
crossroads for ...go
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