A Guide to Unique Locations, Hidden Corners and Unusual Objects
Discover Triestes Habsburg-era glories, multi-ethnic influences and burgeoning cultural life with this explorers guidebook to Italys 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 Italys unsung port city and beyond. Roman ruins and curious caves, wartime tales and seaside traditions, classic cafés and museums galore.
- From Italys 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 Pharaohs Villa, and Titos quarry of death.
- Also Miramare Castle, the Victory Lighthouse, segregated sea bathing, and the worlds 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..
