Trieste

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Trieste is a city in Italy.

Palazzo del Municipio at Piazza Unità, Trieste
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Palazzo del Municipio at Piazza Unità, Trieste
Table of contents
1 Understand
2 Get in

2.1 By Air
2.2 By Bus
2.3 By Train

3 Get around
4 See
5 Do
6 Buy
7 Eat
8 Drink
9 Sleep

9.1 Budget

10 Get out
11 External links

Understand

Trieste (Triest in German, Trieszt in hungarian, Trst in Slavic languages) is the capital of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region and has 250,000 inhabitants. It is situated on the crossroads of several commercial and cultural flows: German middle Europe to the north, Slavic masses and the Balkans to the east, Italy and then Latin countries to the west and the Mediterranean Sea to the south.

Its artistic and cultural heritage is therefore linked to its singular "border town" location. You can find some old Roman architecture (a small theater near the sea, a nice arch into old city and an interesting Roman museum), Austrian empire architecture across the city centre (similar to stuff you can find in Vienna) and a nice atmosphere of metissage of Mediterranean styles, as Trieste was a very important port during the 18th century.

Get in

By Air

Flights to Trieste include Ryanair from London Stansted, Lufthansa from Munich, Alitalia and Airone from Rome,Milan,Naples .

By Bus

Three (or so) buses a day to Pula/Pola and Rijeka/Fiume in Croatia. Local routes include Udine, Venice, Padova, Grado, San Candido/Innichen

By Train

Lots of trains from Venice and Udine, Eurostar from Milan and Rome at the Central Station. Trains from Ljubljana, Maribor and Budapest at the Villa Opicina Station. If you arrive by train, the last 10 minutes of travel you have a beautiful sight, because the railway goes along the sea and if the weather is good it should be very striking.

Note that there is no tourist information office or accommodation service at the the train station.

Get around

See

You can find a very big synagogue (1900, circa), Serb-orthodox and Greek-orthodox churches, a lot of Protestant churches and so on.

Three of the city's most beautiful sights are:

  1. The beautiful Piazza Unità, the central square in front of the sea
  2. The Miramare Castle (Castello di Miramare), a Habsburg romantic building created by the brother of Franz Josef. There is a fantastic park along the seafront, the Parco di Miramare
  3. The view from up the hills, from Prosecco/Proseck village, at the end of the Carso plateau

From the railway station, you can arrive in Piazza Unità in 10 minutes on foot,or you can take the bus n°36 ask for the 'Castello di Miramare' bus stop.

Other beautiful places to visit are Grotta Gigante, an emormous cave open to tourists and the Santuario di Monte Grisa with its wonderful sights of the city and the sea. To arrive in Santuario di Monte Grisa you can start from Obelisco and have a walk in the 'Strada Napoleonica'.

Do

Buy

Eat

Most of the restaurants near the waterfront and main piazzas are touristy seafood places. For a typical Italian pizzeria try Mascalzone Latino (expensive) or Nonna Rosa (cheap): the pizzas are very good and the service is friendly.

Drink

Sleep

The helpful tourist information in Piazza Unita can provide you with a list of accommodation and will even make bookings for you. They also have free maps.

Budget

  • Trieste Youth Hostel, near the Castello di Miramare in a wonderful place near the sea. To arrive there, take bus n° 36 near the exit of the railway station, and ask for the Miramare bus station(in Italian: 'la fermata per il Castello di Miramare'). The only problem with the youth hostel is than in Trieste the buses travel only up till 9.00 p.m. After that, the only way to reach the hostel is by taxi (quite expensive) or on foot (and it is far away).
  • Hotel Porta Cavana, Via Felice Venezian, 14, tel. 0-4030-1313; hotelportacavana@libero.it (mailto:hotelportacavana@libero.it), [1] (http://www.hotelportacavana.it/). Close to the beautiful Piazza Unità, its rooms have a CD-player, cable TV and VCR. Staff is friendly and speaks English. Singles/Doubles min/max € 36 - 130

Get out

Across the countryside you can find small beautiful farms where you will find beautiful different kinds of home-made salami, cheese and ham, and a characteristic red wine. And maybe along the Riviera ( Muggia, Sistiana,Duino)you can find some nice places to sleep, too.

The pretty island of Grado just to the west makes a good half day boat trip (ticket retour 6 €).

Venice and Ljubljana are also major nearby destinations.


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