Trieste Favorites

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Favorite thing: When I am in Trieste I like to explore the old town. I mean the area around piazza Cavana which is very near piazza dell' Unità d' Italia. This is an area with a maze of streets with very old buildings. You can also find some Roman remain there.

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Favorite thing: Borgo Teresiano is a neighbourhood characterized by grid like streets. It was built on the place where the salt pans were. This area was wanted by the Austrian emperor Charles VI and completed by her daughter Maria Teresa in the 1800's. Here you can see the Canal Grande; built between 1750 and 1756. On this channel various boats are always moored. It is bordered by several palaces; two churches (St. Antonio Nuovo and St. Spiridione; an Ortodox church), some cafes, restaurants and shops.

Favorite thing: www.trieste.com has information on what to do and see in the city; museums, itineraries, exibitions and so on. Moreover on this web site you can read something on the history of Trieste, its typical food and how to get there and around the city.

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Favorite thing: A small zoo is set up in Piazza Ponterosso (close to the Canal Grande) every year at Christmas time. A shed houses several animals that convey the atmosphere of the crib where Jesus was born: from local animals, such as goats, cows and donkeys, to exotic species like llamas and camels.

Favorite thing: Trieste is a cracking little place, we stopped there for 4 days while my ship visited with the rest of the NATO force.

loads of nice little bars and as in most countries an Irish bar !! the food is excellent and the prices are very resonable indeed.

I took 7 people with me cycling from Trieste to Koper in Slovenia the day the ship sailed to meet it back into port in Koper, there really wernt any cycle routes as such and finidng the info on the net proved to be a nightmere.

However in true Naval style i managed to Cuff a route, cycling through trieste town centre following the signs for Slovenia. Then we managed to navigate ono the AutoBahn NOT RECOMMENDED BY ANY MEANS!!

we got off at the earliest opportunity to follow a sign called Muggai. From there we picked up a cycle path called D8 which took us all the way to Koper.

We took our passports but didnt need to show them on the border control point.

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Favorite thing: Arriving in Trieste by bus is a real pleasure. Passing the outer industrial area and the swanky yacht marina, you carry on to the very heart of the city and never leave the water's edge. This long promenade ( Riva ) leading to the Bus Station is attractively landscaped with trees and flowers and only the traffic lanes divide it from the piazzas and historic buildings on the other side. Near the Piazza D'Unita D'Italia for example, you leave the square, cross the street and you are right at the sea wall. Here two sections of harbour wall jut out and on one of them, Molo Audace, people are lying full length, sunbathing. At 3.00 p.m. I gave up on the sightseeing and just headed for the sea. All day it had been pulling me like a magnet but the really great thing here is that from most points of the city, you can be at the seafront in a matter of minutes. This morning it was a litttle misty here but now the sea is 50 shades of sapphire and torquoise. Yacht sails symmetricaly frame the horizon and the world and its mother seem to be taking a post-prandial stroll. Definitely a touch of La Dolce Vita here, I think. Right where I am sitting is a wonderful bronze monument showing two people, a scissors and some cloth. Maybe a tribute to the rag trade but why here at the sea wall ? Is it marking the emigration of people involved in this trade ? Whatever its significance it's really striking.

Eventually, the clocks on the twin towers of the nearby church remind me that I must catch a bus. Last impressions of Trieste are all as favourable as the earlier ones and I am really glad I came.

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Favorite thing: Trieste's Canal Grande is a long way removed from its counterpart in Venice and you wont be coming across a Rialto Bridge along this particular stretch of water. It's short and not very impressive but a pleasant addition to the city nonetheless. It leads the eye staright up to the Church of St. Antonio Nuovo and for this view alone it justifies its existence. At around 2.30, exhausted from hours of walking I sat on the edge of Piazza Ponterosso and enjoyed the ambience of the canal. Opposite me the canal side is lined with cafe tables . All shops now seem to have been closed for about two hours so it must still be siesta time. The Italians are definitely fans of the long lunche and every bar and cafe is thronged. In the water are the wavering reflections of the palaces that line the canal and the whole effect is quite Venetian, despite the abscence of the Rialto Bridge. From here I can see the statue of James Joyce crossing the bridge and just at the end of the street is the Sea. It seems to me that everybody strolls here as opposed to rushing. Trieste strikes me as a very laid-back city.

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Favorite thing: I'd never before been inside a Serbian Orhodox Church so I was very pleased to get a chance to visit the Church of San Spiridione in Trieste. It looks Byzantine in style and the blue roofs reminded me of Greek churches but as the exterior on the Canal side was completely covered in scaffolding it was difficult for me to note many of the details. Inside however it was dark and mysterious with flickering candles illuminating silver and gold. This church was opened in 1868 during the period of Slovenian dominance in Trieste. Nearby is one of the largest synagogues in Europe, the Tempio Israelitico and the neo-classical Church of St Antonio Nuovo. These, along with the Greek Orthodox Church Of St Nicholas, reflect the many influences which Trieste has come under during its history: Serbian, Slovenian, Hapsburg, Italian, Venetian........