UNUSUAL SIGHTS IN TRIESTE
You can explore most of the historical part of the city by simply walking around and enjoying the different architectural styles (liberty, eclectic, neoclassical…) While discovering its curious features.
You can explore most of the historical part of the city by simply walking around and enjoying the different architectural styles (liberty, eclectic, neoclassical…) While discovering its curious features.
The PonteRosso canal was built in 1700 so that boats could easily reach the city centre to load and unload their cargo. Originally, the canal used to be longer, reaching the cobblestones in front of the Church of Sant’Antonio Taumaturgo.
The first part of the canal has been buried in 1934 with the debris from the demolition of the old city, thus creating the present Piazza Sant’Antonio. Rumour has it that a small torpedo boat, abandoned after the war, has been buried with the canal and now lies under the square.
In the 30s the structures of the harbour underwent a general modernization program, that led to the construction of new silos and docks. Especially significant was the installation of new cranes, the last of which still stands today: the Ursus crane. It is 75 metres tall, and almost resembles the Eiffel Tower. And it is one of the tallest and oldest floating cranes in Europe, still docked at the Molo IV.
In the neighbourhood of Cavana, going up via della Madonna del Mare, you can reach a particular little square, whose buildings have a concave facade.
Everyone in Trieste knows “Michez” and “Jachez”, the two famous page boys that have been beating the hours on the municipal tower in Piazza Unità d’Italia for more than a century. The original bronze statues and bell from the XIX century are exhibited at the entrance of the San Giusto castle.
James Joyce lived from 1912 to 1915 in a house in via Bramante 4, on the second floor. It’s easy to picture the famous writer looking out of the window with his round glasses.
Here you’ll find a plaque saying: “I wrote something. The first episode of my new novel Ulysses is written. James Joyce. 16 June 1915”.