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Pop.: 209,520
Area: 84,46 sq. km, 2 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Basovizza, Domio, Gropada, Opicina, Padriciano, Prosecco, Servola, Trebiciano, Zaule
Town Hall: Piazza dell Unita d Italia, 4 - 34100 Trieste
Phone.: 040.67961 Fax: 040.6796299
www.comune.trieste.it
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Related links:
Miramare Castle
- Il Borgo Teresiano
- La cittą Vecchia
- Cathedral of San Giusto
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For those arriving by car or
train, the tour of the city
begins from Piazza della Libertą
and the garden in which the
monument to Empress Sissi,
Empress of Austria and wife of Franz
Joseph was erected in 1912, being replaced
there in 1997. The square is surrounded by
the Railway Station in neo-
Renaissance style and
Palazzo Economo, in
neo-Greek style, today the seat of
Superintendence and Gallery of Ancient Art.
A multi-storey car park has been
created inside the old silo, while
the simple architecture of the former bus
station hosts the
Tripcovich Hall, used today for theatre
performances and concerts.
On the embankment, the complex of
Porto Vecchio is to be found,
with an overall extension of 600,000 sq. m
of buildings, docks and wharfs: industrial
archaeology today, but for a century it was
a self-sufficient entity powered by its own
hydrodynamic plant operating more than
100 cranes and 50 hoists, complete
with 38 warehouses along 3 km of coast.
An important reconversion plan
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to enlarge
harbour facilities is being carried out.
Going down Via Ghega the wide straight
Via Carducci is reached, which fills in the
Torrente Maggiore and is lined with
imposing 19th- and 20th-century buildings.
This street departs from the spectacular
Piazza G. Oberdan: located on the former
site of the Theresian hospital and Austrian
barracks and its buildings erected between
1929 and 1939, the square is shaped as an
exedra at the centre of which stands the
bronze sculpture "The Canticle of
Canticles" by M. Mascherini (1962),
from which the view of the
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Law Courts is
enjoyed. On the opposite side of the square there is
the small rail and tram station of the
picturesque Trieste-Opicina cog railway
opened in 1902
About halfway down Via Carducci, level
with the palace of Portici di Chiozza
two streets branch off: one is
Via Cesare Battisti, leading to the
Public Garden with the monument to
Domenico Rossetti
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(1900). Along
this street, the historical
Caffč San Marco, where intellectuals used
to meet, is to be found, with its unchanged
atmosphere and frescoes by P. Marussig.
The other street is Viale XX Settembre
(also known as Viale dell'Acquedotto),
the tree-lined pedestrian avenue at the
end of which is the
Politeama Rossetti, the
Teatro Stabile of Friuli-Venezia Giulia
dedicated to prose, that hosts performances
from classical and 20th-century repertoires,
as well as musicals and experimental plays.
Via S. Francesco is dominated by the
New Synagogue (R. and A. Berlam); one
of the largest in Europe, it replaced in
1912 the 18th-century Major Temple
of the Jewish community which had been
granted permission to open temples in
Trieste in 1696. Largo Panfili
is instead characterized by the daring soaring lines
of the neo-Gothic
Augustan Evangelical Church, with its
neoclassical monuments.
Piazza Vittorio Veneto, with the central
Fountain of the Tritons (F. Schrantz,
1898), is surrounded by
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monumental palaces,
among which the Post Office
, opposite
which is the building hosting the Italian
Railways Offices,
and Palazzo Galatti,
the seat of the Provincial Board of
Trieste. Going along Via Galatti towards
the sea, on the corner with Via Cavour is
the building that housed the
Austro-Hungarian Bank (1906) and was
then restructured by architect A. Berlam to host the Bank of Italy.
The Jolly Hotel (1951) is located in
Via C. Cavour, as well as the former
headquarters of the Cantieri Riuniti
dell'Adriatico, all faced with green marble
and, on the corner with Piazza Duca degli
Abruzzi, the building of
Assicurazioni Generali (1886). Opposite,
the Casa del Lavoratore Portuale (1939)
which hosts the Teatro Miela
(a special container for the 'other'
kinds of music) and on the sea the
former Idroscalo (seaplane base), built
on engineer C. Pollack's project in 1931,
and now the seat of the Capitaneria
di Porto (Harbour Office).
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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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