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Nov
2020
CASTLE OF SAN GIUSTO – TRIESTE
Posted by: Redazione TriesteraccontaTrieste /10740

The Castle of San Giusto is the symbol of the city and is located on the top of the homonymous hill. Its origins date back to the mid-Bronze Age when a castle was built that dominated and controlled the whole territory from the top of the hill. Around the castelliere, it developed in the first […]

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Nov
2020
LIGHTHOUSE OF VICTORY – TRIESTE
Posted by: Redazione TriesteraccontaTrieste /8580

The Victory Lighthouse was born from an idea of the Trieste architect Arduino Berlam who, after the defeat of Caporetto and the battle of the Piave, wanted to design an imposing work whose functions included the commemoration of the sailors who fell in the First World War and the guide for the night navigation in […]

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Nov
2020
MERIDIANA -PIAZZA DELLA BORSA – TRIESTE
Posted by: Redazione TriesteraccontaTrieste /6620

In 1820, a 12-meter-long sundial was built on the floor in front of the ground floor of the Palazzo della Borsa, which was used to synchronize the marine clocks of the large ocean-going ships arriving in Trieste. Through a hole made in a slit on the main facade of the Palazzo della Borsa, the sun’s […]

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Nov
2020
PIAZZA DELLA BORSA -TRIESTE
Posted by: Redazione TriesteraccontaTrieste /11700

the second good city living room The economic center of the city throughout the 19th century. Its current architectural form dates back to mid-1749, when the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria gave impetus to the urban development of the territory by burying the salt pans to the west of the ancient walls and favoring the […]

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Nov
2020
ARCH OF RICCARDO -TRIESTE
Posted by: Redazione TriesteraccontaTrieste /8230

The construction of the Arch of Riccardo probably dates back to the middle of the 1st century BC. and it has a height of 7.20 meters, width of 5.30 meters, depth of 2 meters and a plant motif in the archway. The Arch is located on an ancient Roman road and it is assumed that […]

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Nov
2020
ROMAN AMPHITHEATER – TRIESTE
Posted by: Redazione TriesteraccontaTrieste /9530

At the foot of the San Giusto hill, by the sea, the Romans between the 1st-2nd century AD. built a large theater capable of holding between 3500 and 6000 spectators who, on the gratins built using the natural slope of the hill, attended outdoor entertainment shows: tragedies, comedies and some finds of helmets, it also […]

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Nov
2020
THE GIRLS OF TRIESTE AND THE BERSAGLIERI
Posted by: Redazione TriesteraccontaTrieste /9580

In 2004, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the return of the city of Trieste to Italy, it was inaugurated, near the Molo Audace, and in front of Piazza dell’Unità d’Italia, on the Royal Staircase of the Riva Caduti for the Italianness of Trieste , The monument of the Bersaglieri and the Girls […]

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Nov
2020
AUDACE PIER – TRIESTE
Posted by: Redazione TriesteraccontaTrieste /9360

« Per me al mondo non v’ha un più caro e fido luogo di questo. Dove mai più solo mi sento e in buona compagnia che al molo San Carlo, e più mi piace l’onda e il lido? »  Umberto Saba With 246 meters in length, the Audace pier is one of the most evocative […]

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Nov
2020
FOUNTAIN OF “GIOVANNIN DEL PONTEROSSO” – TRIESTE
Posted by: Redazione TriesteraccontaTrieste /9510

The fountain was built by Giovanni Mazzoleni in the mid-eighteenth century, creator of the fountain of the Four Continents in Piazza Unità d’Italia. The water of the large basin, used by the citizens, came from the San Giovanni aqueduct.In the second half of the eighteenth century, the sculptor Giovanni Carlo Wagner sculpted a statue of […]

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Nov
2020
CHURCH OF SANT’ANTONIO TAUMATURGO – TRIESTE
Posted by: Redazione TriesteraccontaTrieste /8180

The Church of Sant’Antonio Taumaturgo popularly called “Sant’Antonio Nuovo” was built on the site where a private chapel dedicated to the Annunciation had already been erected in 1767, which was later demolished because it was small compared to the public. In its place, in 1771, another church in Baroque style was erected but also the […]