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Walking under the porch of the Town
Hall, the Piazza Piccola is reached,
with the tall and narrow faēade of Palazzo
Costanzi (P. Nobile, 1817, now an exhibition
venue), side by side with the glass front of the
Anagrafe (Registry Office; A. Cervi and R.
Boico, 1954-58). Going along the 18thcentury
Palazzo Marenzi and then via dei
Rettori, Piazza Vecchia is reached, with the
17th-century Church of Beata Vergine del
Rosario. The first stretch of Via del
Teatro Romano is set against the singular
background of two churches: in fact, the small
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Romanesque basilica of S. Silvestro,
made of sandstone, has belonged to the
Helvetic and Waldensian Evangelical
Community since 1785. Side by side with it
stands the majestic Baroque Church of Sta.
Maria Maggiore, built by the Jesuits
between 1627 and the early 1700s. Its vast
interior is dominated by the dome frescoed by
G.B. Bison (The Four Evangelists, 1816),
while the apse is decorated with the Triumph
of the Virgin (S. Santi, 1842). Above this
church, the Monastery of Benedictine
Enclosed Nuns, built in 1458 and enlarged in
1638, with the Church of S. Cipriano,
contains the Great Cross in post-
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Giottesque
style (1360-1380), two wooden statues (15th-
16th centuries) and an altarpiece by Palma the
Younger (1544-1628). The Roman theatre
was brought to light during the excavations
in the 1930s: the cavea, surrounded by the
original wide wall, is pushed against the slope
with brick steps (almost all of which are being
restored). Below, the few remains of the
monumental theatre scene, built on the sea.
Opposite the theatre is the Palazzo della Questura,
(G. Battigelli and F. Spangaro, 1938-40),
former Casa del Fascio. Behind the Roman
theatre, along the picturesque Via di Donota
an antiquarium and the remains of the
tower by the same name can be seen, the last
remains of the 14th-century ring of walls
together with Tor Cucherna, which is a bit
above.
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Above Via di Donota the buildings of
Cittą Vecchia follow the medieval city plan,
which in turn derived from the Roman one.
Surrounded by towered walls, the Cittą Vecchia
had a triangular plan, with the base along the
port and the apex on the hill. In Piazza
Riccardo, which opens among the houses, the
Arco di Riccardo is an elegant Roman
archway erected in the 1st century AD to
embellish the walls Hadria had built 33 BC; a
stretch the walls can still be seen along Via
delle Monache).On the corner between Via
F. Veneziani and Via della Rotonda, the elegant
neoclassical arched front of Rotonda Pancera
is impressive (M. Pertsch, 1804-1806).)
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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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