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}}Trieste (Italian: Trieste; Slovenian, Serbian, and Croatian: Trst; German: Triest) is a city and port in northeastern Italy right on the border with Slovenia. Trieste is located at the head of the Gulf of Trieste on the Adriatic Sea. With a population of 207,069 (2001) it is the capital of the autonomous region Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Trieste province.
Trieste flourished as part of Austria, from 1382 (the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1867) until 1918 when it was among Central Europe's most prosperous Mediterranean seaports as well as a capital of literature and music. However, the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Trieste's annexation to Italy after World War I led to a decline in its economic and cultural importance.
Today, Trieste is a border town. The population is an ethnic mix of the neighboring regions; The dominant local Venetian dialect of Trieste is called Triestine ("Triestin" - pronounced , in Italian "Triestino"). This dialect and the official Italian language are spoken in the city center while Slovenian is spoken in several of the immediate suburbs. The Venetian and the Slovenian languages are considered autochthonous to the area. There are also a small number of German and Hungarian speakers.
The economy depends on the port and on trade with its neighboring regions. Throughout the Cold War Trieste was peripheral, but it is rebuilding some of its former influence.
Places of tourist interest in Trieste include numerous examples of Art Nouveau and neoclassical architecture from its Austrian past, the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, the International School for Advanced Studies and Trieste University.
By 177 BC, the city was under the governance of the Roman republic. Trieste was granted the status of a colony under Julius Caesar, who recorded its name as Tergeste in his Commentarii de bello Gallico (51 BC).After the end of the Western Roman Empire (in 476), Trieste remained a Byzantine military centre. In 788 it became part of the Frank kingdom, under the authority of their count-bishop. From the year 1081 the city came loosely under Aquileia's patriarchy, developing into a free commune at the end of the 12th century.
Trieste grew into an important port and trade hub. It was constituted a free port within the Austrian domains by Emperor Charles VI and remained a free port from 1719 until July 1 1891. The reign of his successor, Maria Theresa of Austria, marked for Trieste in particular the beginning of a flourishing era.
The city was occupied by French troops three times during the Napoleonic Wars, in 1797, 1805 and 1809. In the latter occasion it was annexed to the Illyrian Provinces by Napoleon. In this period Trieste lost its autonomy (even when it was returned to the Austrian Empire in 1813), and status of free port was interrupted.
Following the Napoleonic Wars, Trieste continued to prosper as the Imperial Free City of Trieste (Reichsunmittelbare Stadt Triest) and it became capital of the Austrian Littoral region, the so-called Küstenland.
The city's role as the principal Austrian commercial port and shipbuilding center was later emphasized by the foundation of the Austrian Lloyd merchant shipping line in 1836, whose headquarters stood at the corner of the Piazza Grande and Sanita. By 1913 Austrian Lloyd had a fleet of 62 ships comprising a total of 236,000 tons. Hubmann, Franz, & Wheatcroft, Andrew (editor), The Habsburg Empire, 1840 -1916, London, 1972, ISBN 0-7100-7230-9
The modern Austro-Hungarian Navy also used Trieste's shipbuilding facilities and as a base. The construction of the first major trunk railway in the Empire, the Vienna-Trieste Austrian Southern Railway, was completed in 1857, a valuable asset for trade and the supply of coal.
In the beginning of the 20th century, Trieste was a buzzing cosmopolitan city frequented by artists such as James Joyce, Italo Svevo and Umberto Saba. The city was part of the so-called Austrian Riviera and a very real part of Mitteleuropa. The particular Friulian dialect, called Tergestino, spoken until the beginning of the 19th century, had been gradually supplanted by Triestine (i.e., a Venetian dialect) and other tongues, including Italian, German and Slovenian. While Triestine was the language of the major part of the population, German was the language of the Austrian bureaucracy and Slovenian was the language of the surrounding villages. Viennese architecture and coffeehouses still dominate the streets of Trieste today.
The border questions with Yugoslavia and the status of the ethnic minorities were settled definitively in 1975 with the Treaty of Osimo.
In modern times, Trieste's importance as a port has declined, both because of the annexation by Italy, with its greater choice of better located ports, and because of competition from the nearby new port of Koper in Slovenia. However, there is significant commercial shipping to the container terminal, steel works and oil terminal, all of which are located to the south of the city centre.
A second transalpine railway was opened to Trieste in 1906, with the opening of the Transalpina Railway from Vienna via Jesenice and Nova Gorica. This line also approached Trieste via Villa Opicina, but then took a rather shorter loop to the south to arrive at Trieste's other main railway terminus, Trieste Campo Marzio station, some distance to the south of Centrale station. This southern loop no longer carries a regular passenger service, and Campo Marzio station is now a railway museum.
In order to facilitate freight traffic between the two stations, and the adjoining port areas, a temporary line known as the Rivabahn was built along the waterfront in 1887. This line survived until 1981, when it was replaced by the Galleria di Circonvallazione, a 5.7 km rail tunnel route under and to the east of the city. Freight service from the port area includes container services to northern Italy and to Budapest, together with truck carrying services to Salzburg and Frankfurt.
Passenger rail service to Trieste now largely consists largely of trains to Venice, which make connection with services to Rome and Milan at Mestre, with a few through trains to Rome and Milan. These trains reach Centrale station via a line around the head of the Gulf of Trieste which connects with the Sudbahn's northerly loop. International through services between Italy and Slovenia (and places beyond) now bypass Trieste itself, calling instead at Villa Opicina.
==Main sights== of San Spiridione.]]
The Castle gardens provide a setting of outstanding beauty with a variety of trees, chosen by and planted on the orders of Maximilian, that today make a remarkable collection.
Features of particular attraction in the gardens include two ponds, one noted for its swans and the other for lotus flowers, the Castle annexe ("Castelletto"), a nearby a bronze statue of Maximilian, and a small chapel in which is kept a cross made from the remains of the "Novara", the flagship on which Maximilian, brother of Emperor Franz Josef, set sail to become Emperor of Mexico.
The Castle - in which several rooms, including the Sala Caprin, are open to the public - houses a Museum displaying historical weapons and is regularly used for the staging of exhibitions, events and, in the summer, open-air shows. A walk on the Castle ramparts and bastions gives a complete panorama of the city of Trieste, its hills and the sea.
The Roman theatre lies at the foot of the San Giusto hill, and faces the sea. The construction partially exploits the gentle slope of the hill, and most of the construction work is in stone. The topmost portion of the amphitheatre steps and the stage were presumably made of wood.
The statues that adorned the theatre (which was brought to light in the '30s) are now preserved at the Town Museum. Three inscriptions from the Trajan period mention a certain Q. Petronius Modestus, a person who was closely connected with the development of the theatre, which was erected during the second half of the 1st century.
Trieste flourished as part of Austria, from 1382 (the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1867) until 1918 when it was among Central Europe's most prosperous Mediterranean seaports as well as a capital of literature and music. However, the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Trieste's annexation to Italy after World War I led to a decline in its economic and cultural importance.
Today, Trieste is a border town. The population is an ethnic mix of the neighboring regions; The dominant local Venetian dialect of Trieste is called Triestine ("Triestin" - pronounced , in Italian "Triestino"). This dialect and the official Italian language are spoken in the city center while Slovenian is spoken in several of the immediate suburbs. The Venetian and the Slovenian languages are considered autochthonous to the area. There are also a small number of German and Hungarian speakers.
The economy depends on the port and on trade with its neighboring regions. Throughout the Cold War Trieste was peripheral, but it is rebuilding some of its former influence.
Places of tourist interest in Trieste include numerous examples of Art Nouveau and neoclassical architecture from its Austrian past, the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, the International School for Advanced Studies and Trieste University.
History
Ancient era
The area of what is now Trieste was settled by the Carni, an Indo-European tribe (hence the name Carso) since the 3rd millennium BC. Subsequently the area was populated by the Histri, an Illyrian people, who remained the main civilization until the 2000 BC, when the Palaeo-Veneti arrived.By 177 BC, the city was under the governance of the Roman republic. Trieste was granted the status of a colony under Julius Caesar, who recorded its name as Tergeste in his Commentarii de bello Gallico (51 BC).After the end of the Western Roman Empire (in 476), Trieste remained a Byzantine military centre. In 788 it became part of the Frank kingdom, under the authority of their count-bishop. From the year 1081 the city came loosely under Aquileia's patriarchy, developing into a free commune at the end of the 12th century.
Austria
After two centuries of war against the nearby major power, the Republic of Venice (who occupied it briefly from 1369 to 1372), the burghers of Trieste petitioned Leopold III von Habsburg, Duke of Austria to become part of his domains. (The agreement of cessation was signed in October 1382, at the St. Bartholomew's church in the village of ?i?ka (apud Sisciam), today one of the city quarters of Ljubljana.) The citizens, however, maintained a certain degree of autonomy well until the 17th century.Trieste grew into an important port and trade hub. It was constituted a free port within the Austrian domains by Emperor Charles VI and remained a free port from 1719 until July 1 1891. The reign of his successor, Maria Theresa of Austria, marked for Trieste in particular the beginning of a flourishing era.
The city was occupied by French troops three times during the Napoleonic Wars, in 1797, 1805 and 1809. In the latter occasion it was annexed to the Illyrian Provinces by Napoleon. In this period Trieste lost its autonomy (even when it was returned to the Austrian Empire in 1813), and status of free port was interrupted.
Following the Napoleonic Wars, Trieste continued to prosper as the Imperial Free City of Trieste (Reichsunmittelbare Stadt Triest) and it became capital of the Austrian Littoral region, the so-called Küstenland.
The city's role as the principal Austrian commercial port and shipbuilding center was later emphasized by the foundation of the Austrian Lloyd merchant shipping line in 1836, whose headquarters stood at the corner of the Piazza Grande and Sanita. By 1913 Austrian Lloyd had a fleet of 62 ships comprising a total of 236,000 tons. Hubmann, Franz, & Wheatcroft, Andrew (editor), The Habsburg Empire, 1840 -1916, London, 1972, ISBN 0-7100-7230-9
The modern Austro-Hungarian Navy also used Trieste's shipbuilding facilities and as a base. The construction of the first major trunk railway in the Empire, the Vienna-Trieste Austrian Southern Railway, was completed in 1857, a valuable asset for trade and the supply of coal.
In the beginning of the 20th century, Trieste was a buzzing cosmopolitan city frequented by artists such as James Joyce, Italo Svevo and Umberto Saba. The city was part of the so-called Austrian Riviera and a very real part of Mitteleuropa. The particular Friulian dialect, called Tergestino, spoken until the beginning of the 19th century, had been gradually supplanted by Triestine (i.e., a Venetian dialect) and other tongues, including Italian, German and Slovenian. While Triestine was the language of the major part of the population, German was the language of the Austrian bureaucracy and Slovenian was the language of the surrounding villages. Viennese architecture and coffeehouses still dominate the streets of Trieste today.
Annexation to Italy
Together with Trento, Trieste was the main seat of the irredendist movement, which aimed to the annexion to Italy of all the lands they claimed were historically inhabited by culturally Italian people. After World War I ended and Austria-Hungary disintegrated, Trieste was transferred to Italy (1920) along with the whole Julian March (Venezia Giulia). The annexation, however, brought a loss of importance for the city, with the new border depriving it of a true hinterland. The Slovenian ethnic group ( at the time about the 25% of the population) was also suppressed by the Fascist Regime. This led to a period of inner strain which culminated on April 13, 1920, when a group of Italian nationalists burnt the Narodni dom (National House), the cultural centre of Trieste's Slovenians.Second World War
After the constitution of the Italian Social Republic, on September 23, 1943, Trieste was nominally absorbed into this entity. The Germans, however, annexed it to the Operation Zone of the Adriatic Littoral, which also included Gorizia and Ljubljana and was led by Austrian Friedrich Rainer. Under the Nazi occupation, the sole concentration camp on Italian soil was constructed in a suburb of Trieste, at the Risiera di San Sabba (Ri?arna), on April 4, 1944. The city also suffered from the partisan activity and from Allied bombardments.Yugoslav and New Zealand involvement
On April 30, 1945, the Italian anti-fascist Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale (CLN) of don Marzari and Fonda Savio, with 3500 volunteers, incited a revolt against the Nazis. On May 1, Yugoslav partisans of Tito's army arrived and liberated most of Trieste from the Nazis. The 2nd New Zealand Division continued its advance along Route 14 around the north coast of the Adriatic to Trieste and arrived at the city on the next day. The German forces eventually capitulated on the evening of May 2.Italian city
In 1947, Trieste became an independent state as the Free Territory of Trieste and was governed for several years by the Allied Military Government, comprising American and (mainly) British forces headed by Sir Terence Airey. This state was de facto dissolved in 1954: the city of Trieste, dubbed Zone A, went to Italy, while the southern part of the territory (Zone B), comprising Istria and some parts of the Karst went to Yugoslavia. The annexation to Italy was officially proclaimed on October 26 of that year.The border questions with Yugoslavia and the status of the ethnic minorities were settled definitively in 1975 with the Treaty of Osimo.
Transport
Maritime transport
Trieste's location on the coast and its long term former status as part of the Austrian and Austro-Hungarian empires meant that the Port of Trieste became the major commercial port for large portions of landlocked central Europe. In the 19th century, a whole new port district known as the Porto Nuovo was built to the northeast of the city centre.In modern times, Trieste's importance as a port has declined, both because of the annexation by Italy, with its greater choice of better located ports, and because of competition from the nearby new port of Koper in Slovenia. However, there is significant commercial shipping to the container terminal, steel works and oil terminal, all of which are located to the south of the city centre.
Rail transport
The fact that Trieste was a major port for central Europe, and the consequent need to transport people and goods long distances meant that railways came early. The first line to reach the city was the Sudbahn in 1857. This line stretched 1400 km to Lviv (in today's Ukraine) via Ljubljana (in Slovenia), Sopron (in Hungary), Vienna (in Austria), and Kraków (in Poland), crossing the backbone of the Alps by the Semmering Pass near Graz. This line approaches Trieste through the village of Villa Opicina, only a few kilometres from the city centre but over 300 metres higher. In order to lose this height, the line undertakes a 32 km detour to the north before terminating at Trieste Centrale station.A second transalpine railway was opened to Trieste in 1906, with the opening of the Transalpina Railway from Vienna via Jesenice and Nova Gorica. This line also approached Trieste via Villa Opicina, but then took a rather shorter loop to the south to arrive at Trieste's other main railway terminus, Trieste Campo Marzio station, some distance to the south of Centrale station. This southern loop no longer carries a regular passenger service, and Campo Marzio station is now a railway museum.
In order to facilitate freight traffic between the two stations, and the adjoining port areas, a temporary line known as the Rivabahn was built along the waterfront in 1887. This line survived until 1981, when it was replaced by the Galleria di Circonvallazione, a 5.7 km rail tunnel route under and to the east of the city. Freight service from the port area includes container services to northern Italy and to Budapest, together with truck carrying services to Salzburg and Frankfurt.
Passenger rail service to Trieste now largely consists largely of trains to Venice, which make connection with services to Rome and Milan at Mestre, with a few through trains to Rome and Milan. These trains reach Centrale station via a line around the head of the Gulf of Trieste which connects with the Sudbahn's northerly loop. International through services between Italy and Slovenia (and places beyond) now bypass Trieste itself, calling instead at Villa Opicina.
Air transport
Trieste is served by the nearby Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport, located at Ronchi near Monfalcone at the head of the Gulf of Trieste.Local transport
Local public transport in Trieste is operated by Trieste Transporti, which operates a network of some 60 bus routes and two boat services. They also operate the Opicina Tramway, a unique hybrid tramway and funicular railway that provides a more direct connection between the city centre and Villa Opicina.==Main sights== of San Spiridione.]]
Castles
Castle of Miramare
The Castle was built from 1856 to 1860 to a design by Carl Junker on the orders of Archduke Maximilian.The Castle gardens provide a setting of outstanding beauty with a variety of trees, chosen by and planted on the orders of Maximilian, that today make a remarkable collection.
Features of particular attraction in the gardens include two ponds, one noted for its swans and the other for lotus flowers, the Castle annexe ("Castelletto"), a nearby a bronze statue of Maximilian, and a small chapel in which is kept a cross made from the remains of the "Novara", the flagship on which Maximilian, brother of Emperor Franz Josef, set sail to become Emperor of Mexico.
Castle of San Giusto
Designed on the remains of previous castles on the site, it took almost two centuries to build. The stages of the development of the Castle's defensive structures are marked by the central part built under Frederick III (1470-1), the round Venetian bastion (1508-9), the Hoyos-Lalio bastion and the Pomis, or "Bastione fiorito" dated 1630.The Castle - in which several rooms, including the Sala Caprin, are open to the public - houses a Museum displaying historical weapons and is regularly used for the staging of exhibitions, events and, in the summer, open-air shows. A walk on the Castle ramparts and bastions gives a complete panorama of the city of Trieste, its hills and the sea.
Churches
- The Cathedral of San Giusto.
- The Serb-Orthodox Temple of Holy Trinity and St. Spiridio (1869). The building adopts the Greek-Cross plan with five cupolas in the Byzantine tradition.
- Basilica of San Silvestro (11th century)
- Church of Santa Maria Maggiore (1682)
- Church of San Nicolò dei Greci (1787). This church by the architect Matteo Pertsch (1818), with bell-towers on both sides of the facade, follows the Austrian late baroque style.
- Israelite Temple of Trieste (1912)
Archaeological remains
- Arch of Riccardo (33 BC). It is an Augustan gate built in the Roman walls in 33. It stands in Piazzetta Barbacan, in the narrow streets of the old town. It's called Arco di Riccardo ("Richard's Arch") because is believed to have been crossed by King Richard of England in the return journey from the Crusades.
- Basilica Forense (2nd century)
- Palaeochristian basilica
Roman theatre
Trieste or Tergeste, which probably dates back to the protohistoric period, was enclosed by walls built in 33?32 BC on Emperor Octavius?s orders. The city developed greatly during the 1st and 2nd centuries.The Roman theatre lies at the foot of the San Giusto hill, and faces the sea. The construction partially exploits the gentle slope of the hill, and most of the construction work is in stone. The topmost portion of the amphitheatre steps and the stage were presumably made of wood.
The statues that adorned the theatre (which was brought to light in the '30s) are now preserved at the Town Museum. Three inscriptions from the Trajan period mention a certain Q. Petronius Modestus, a person who was closely connected with the development of the theatre, which was erected during the second half of the 1st century.
Caves
In the whole Trieste province there are 10 speleological groups (24 in Friuli-Venezia Giulia). The Trieste plateau (Altopiano Triestino), called Kras or the Carso and covering an area of roughly 200 km² within Italy has approximately 1500 caves of various sizes (67 are more than 99 m deep). Among the most famous are the Grotta Gigante, the largest tourist cave in the world, with a single cavity large enough to contain St Peter's in Rome, and the Cave of Trebiciano (350 m deep) at the bottom of which flows the Timavo River. This river dives underground at ?kocjan Caves in Slovenia (they are on UNESCO list) and flows about 30 km before emerging about 1 km from the sea in a series of springs near Duino reputed by the Romans to be an entrance to Hades.Others
- The Risiera di San Sabba (Risiera di San Sabba Museum)', a national monument. It is a testimonial of the only Nazi extermination camp in Italy.
- The Foibe ,also sort of national monuments(foiba of "Basovizza" is a national monument).Those are a testimonial of the extermination of Italian people by Comunist troops, during second war and immediately afterwards.
- The Trieste Joyce Museum
- Civico Museo di Storia Naturale di Trieste (natural history museum) contains fossils of early man.
Literature
Many famous writers lived and created their major works in Trieste.Italian writers
- Carolus L. Cergoly
- Italo Svevo
- Umberto Saba
- Scipio Slataper
- Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini, born in Istria (now in Croatia)
- Enzo Bettiza, born in Split
- Fulvio Tomizza, born in Istria (now in Croatia)
- Claudio Magris
- Pino Roveredo
- Susanna Tamaro
German writers
- Robert Hamerling
- Rainer Maria Rilke (lived in Duino near Trieste)
- Veit Heinichen
- Theodor Däubler
Slovenian writers
- Igo Gruden (born in a village near Trieste)
- Vladimir Bartol
- Boris Pahor
- Alojz Rebula
Other writers
- Richard Francis Burton
- James Joyce
- Jan Morris
Other famous people
- Bobi Bazlen, critic and translator
- Mathilde Bonaparte, Napoleon's niece, daughter of his brother Jerome Bonaparte was born here in 1820 and died in the early 20th century
- Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist
- Avgust ?ernigoj, Slovenian painter
- Biaggio Chianese, Italian boxer
- Boris Furlan, Slovenian jurist, translator and politician
- Margherita Hack, Italian astronomer
- Julius Kugy, Slovenian alpinist and musician
- Franko Luin, Swedish-Slovenian graphic designer
- Mauro Maur, trumpet player and composer
- Alberto Randegger, composer
- Ivan Rendi?, Croatian sculptor
- Mitja Ribi?i?, Slovenian Communist leader, President of the Yugoslav Government (1969-1971)
- Edvard Rusjan, Slovenian aircraft constructor and pilot
- Abdus Salam, Pakistani theoretical physicist
- Denis Sciama, British physicist
- Alex Staropoli, keyboardist for the band Rhapsody of Fire
- Viktor Sul?i?, Argentine-Slovenian architect (born in the suburb of Santa Croce/Kri?)
- Vittorio Vidali (aka Enea Sormenti, Jacobo Hurwitz Zender, Carlos Contreras), Communist agent
- Luca Turilli, guitarist for the band Rhapsody of Fire
- Primo? Trubar, Slovenian protestant reformer
- Sigismund Zois, Slovenian mecenate and natural scientist
- George Dolenz, actor and father of Micky Dolenz of the Monkees
Other Trivia
- The first men to reach the bottomest point in the oceans (the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench), used a special bathyscaphe named Trieste in 1960.
- The city was honored with a reference to a starship named the Trieste in the The Next Generation first season episode "11001001". The ship was stationed sixty-six hours away from Starbase 74 during the Bynar supernova incident. The starship name was related to the special minisub (bathyscaphe Trieste) of Jacques Piccard that touched in 1960 the bottom of the Pacific ocean, "boldly reaching" new frontiers for humankind.
- Listed as a location for filming of the popular Francis Ford Coppola movie, The Godfather: Part II (released December 1974).
See also
- University of Trieste, located in Trieste.
- INFN, (National Institute of Nuclear Physics), the nuclear physics laboratory located in Trieste.
- Central European Initiative, located in Trieste.
- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), located in Trieste.
- The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), located in Trieste.
- International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), located in Trieste.
- ELETTRA Synchrotron Light Laboratory, located in Trieste.
- Teatro Comunale Giuseppe Verdi, located in Trieste.
- Trieste Astronomical Observatory, located in Trieste.
- U.S. Triestina Calcio, Trieste's soccer club.
- Il Piccolo, Trieste's newspaper.
- International Talent Support, International competition for fashion and photography
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