Maria Theresa of Austria in 1751 with a decree authorized the construction of a temple owned by the Greek-Illyrian Brotherhood dedicated to San Spiridione and the Holy Trinity in the Teresian village, next to Ponterosso and near the Church of Sant’Antonio Nuovo. In 1781 the community was divided into two groups and divided into two […]
A mining well, dug at the beginning of the 20th century to intercept a vein of coal and soon abandoned due to its unproductivity, in May 1945 became a place of summary executions by Tito’s communist partisans for thousands of Italians from all backgrounds: civilians, soldiers, carabinieri, financiers, police officers and prison custody, fascists and […]
Piazza Hortis was an ancient cemetery site from the early Christian era and was then created following the demolition in 1788 of part of the thirteenth-century convent of the Friars Minor of San Francesco annexed to the current church of Sant’Antonio Vecchio (today Beata Vergine del Soccorso). First the French named it Lutzen Square to […]
In 1714 the Emperor Charles VI, on the occasion of the end of hostilities with the Turks, had a salt warehouse built at the end of the square from which the origin of the first name Piazza del Sale. The salt warehouse was demolished in 1821 and sold to the Municipality who wanted to use […]
In 1995 Guinness Book of Records as “tourist cave containing the largest room in the world”. The Grotta Gigante, whose origin is traced back to at least ten million years ago, is a vast cavity present in the subsoil of the Trieste Karst, consisting of mainly calcareous and to a lesser extent dolomitic carbonate rocks. […]
The first document that testifies to a Jewish settlement in Trieste dates back to 1236. At the end of the eighteenth century there were four synagogues in Trieste. In 1903 an international competition was launched for the construction of a new large synagogue. Of the 42 projects presented, none were chosen because they were all […]
Spiridione Gopcevich, a rich merchant of the Serbo-Orthodox community, commissioned the design of the building to the architect Giovanni Berlam who was inspired by the eclectic style of the Doge’s Palace in Venice. the Palace was built between 1847 and 1850 and Gopcevich lived there for twenty years. The Palace was too large for a […]
The first five Lutheran families arrived in Trieste in 1717 to be able to carry out trade in Trieste declared a free port. In 1852 Trieste had 2353 Evangelicals, Lutherans and Reformed. The first public act of the community was the opening of the Evangelical cemetery in 1754. The Lutheran cult was authorized by Maria […]
The liberalization of trade in the Adriatic sanctioned with a license by Charles VI of 1717, the Passorowitz treaty with which trade was developed through Trieste between Austria and the Ottoman Empire, which included the Greek nation (the Greek state did not yet exist) , but above all the edict of Charles VI himself of […]
In 1926 the newly formed Aedes limited company launched the idea of creating an American-style building in Trieste to the local newspaper “Il Piccolo”. “It will be the first frankly and Americanly modern building in Trieste”. his idea for the construction of the Aedes palace, later known as the “Red Palace”. The first “skyscraper” in […]