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.

Molo Audace – historical introduction and overview of waterfront architecture; Canal Grande - the transition from the Austrian Empire to the Kingdom of Italy; Piazza Ponte Rosso – Trieste’s the cultural life and architecture of the 19th century; San Spiridione – the Serbian Orthodox temple and eastern architecture; Guglielmo Oberdan - Austrian policy in the Risorgimento period; Foro Ulpiano – the fascist period and the Nazis against the backdrop of the city's history; Via Carducci – War and the fall of the Austrian imperial port; Teatro romano – 20th century fascist architecture, Mussolini and the planned destruction; Former Jewish Ghetto - World War I and the exacerbation of nationalist sentiments; Main square - the end of fascism, Nazism and Yugoslavian communism; Waterfront - Italian Trieste and future prospects. End of the tour