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What to see

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  Piazza Unità d'Italia

  The largest sea-facing square in Europe, framed by Habsburg-era municipal and Austrian Lloyd buildings opening directly onto the Adriatic.

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  Castello di Miramare

  White castle on the cliffs north of the city, set in a park of acclimatized Mediterranean and exotic species.

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  Cattedrale di San Giusto

  Romanesque cathedral on the San Giusto hill, formed from the eleventh-century fusion of two adjoining basilicas, with fifth-century mosaics and a fourteenth-century rose window.

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  Borgo Teresiano

  Eighteenth-century neighborhood laid out under Maria Theresa around the Canal Grande, the planned Habsburg extension of the old port city.

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  Risiera di San Sabba

  Former rice-husking plant used as a Nazi concentration camp from 1943 to 1945, the only camp on Italian territory equipped with a crematorium, now a national monument.

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  Museo Revoltella

  Nineteenth-century palace museum bequeathed to the city in 1869 by Baron Pasquale Revoltella, with modern art collection extended into adjoining buildings.

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  Faro della Vittoria

  Lighthouse on the Gretta hill above the gulf, commissioned in 1923 to honor Italian sailors lost in World War I, with a panoramic gallery over Trieste and Istria.

We recommend

Where to eat and stay

Not our picks, but places the guides put their name to: a Michelin star, a Gambero Rosso fork, a Slow Food snail, a Michelin Key for the hotels. Worth a table, a counter, or a night when you pass through.

• Antica trattoria SubanTrattoria

  🐌 🏛️ 📖Antica trattoria Suban has a Slow Food snail, a place on Italy's historic-locali register and a Gambero Rosso listing.

• Al PetesRistorante

  🍴Al Petes has two Gambero Rosso forks (80/100) to its name.

• Antica Trattoria MenarostiRistorante

  🐌Antica Trattoria Menarosti holds a Slow Food snail.

• BollicineBistrot

  🍽️Bollicine carries two Gambero Rosso tables.

• Bracerie VeneteGriglieria

  📖Bracerie Venete has a Gambero Rosso listing to its name.

• Chimera di BaccoRistorante

  🍴Chimera di Bacco holds one Gambero Rosso fork (79/100).

• Harry's PiccoloRistorante

  🍴Harry's Piccolo carries three Gambero Rosso forks (91/100).

• Harry’s PiccoloRistorante

  📋A La Liste score of 87.5, at Harry’s Piccolo.

• L’ApprodoRistorante

  🐌L’Approdo has a Slow Food snail to its name.

• MenarostiRistorante

  🍴Menarosti has two Gambero Rosso forks (81/100) to its name.

• NerodiseppiaTrattoria

  🦐Three Gambero Rosso prawns, at Nerodiseppia.

• Savoia Excelsior Palace Trieste – Starhotels CollezioneHotel

  🔑A place in the Michelin hotel guide, at Savoia Excelsior Palace Trieste – Starhotels Collezione.

Through the year

What happens here

Feasts and festivals that come back year after year. We give the month rather than the date, because the date moves and the month rarely does. Check with the source before you plan a journey around one.

• Sagra di San Marcofood festival

  usually held between April and August. itinerarinelgusto.it

• Sagra di Prebenegfood festival

  usually held in July. TrovaSagre

• Festa Patronale Beata Vergine Addoloratapatron saint's feast

  usually held in September. Sagre FVG (Uolli)