A Guide to Unique Locations, Hidden Corners and Unusual Objects
Discover Trieste’s Habsburg-era glories, multi-ethnic influences and burgeoning cultural life with this explorer’s guidebook to Italy’s alternative city destination. The first real English-language guide to the city in many yearsA ground-breaking Trieste guidebook to 55 fascinating and unusual historical sites in Italy’s unsung port city and beyond. Roman ruins and curious caves, wartime tales and seaside traditions, classic cafés and museums galore.
- From Italy’s best-kept dinosaur and the Theresian Aqueduct to Fascist skyscrapers and a Brutalist housing complex.
- Locations include the first Museum of Wind, the footsteps of James Joyce, the Pharaoh’s Villa, and Tito’s quarry of death.
- Also Miramare Castle, the Victory Lighthouse, segregated sea bathing, and the world’s biggest regatta.
- The ideal Trieste guidebook for travellers who want to escape the crowds and go beyond the well-known paths, as well as for those inhabitants who perhaps thought they already knew their city..
