The cultural highlights of Trieste

The tour illustrates the events, art and architectural styles and the cultural and political life of the city, particularly in the period of the 19th and 20th centuries. We will start with an introduction devoted to the development of the city and then move on to the birth of the Habsburg port and the period of full flowering and success of the imperial port. We will address the historical and cultural vicissitudes of the late 19th and early 20th century with the outbreak of the First World War, its causes and the fall of the Empire and with it the city of Trieste. Then we will analyse the revival of nationalist sentiment, fascism, Nazism and the period of the Second World War. Finally, against the backdrop of historical and cultural events we will look at the end of the war with its serious consequences for Trieste and, in particular, the influence of Yugoslav communism at the end of the Second World War. We will conclude the tour by considering the Trieste of today with its future prospects.