Description
The Molo Audace is the long stone pier that runs 246 meters out to sea from Trieste's waterfront, a few steps from Piazza Unità d'Italia. It is one of the locals' favorite strolls: from the tip, you look back at the city and the square from the sea.
At the end is the bronze compass rose, laid in 1925 with the inscription "Cast in enemy bronze". The pier has always been a meeting place, and there is a custom: couples who reach the end share a kiss.
There is a ship under the stones: the Austrian vessel San Carlo, sunk in the harbor in 1740, was used as the base of the pier, built between 1743 and 1751 and named after it.
The name changed in 1922, in memory of the destroyer Audace, the first Italian Navy ship to enter the port, on November 3, 1918. Umberto Saba dedicated his poem Il molo to it.
At the end is the bronze compass rose, laid in 1925 with the inscription "Cast in enemy bronze". The pier has always been a meeting place, and there is a custom: couples who reach the end share a kiss.
There is a ship under the stones: the Austrian vessel San Carlo, sunk in the harbor in 1740, was used as the base of the pier, built between 1743 and 1751 and named after it.
The name changed in 1922, in memory of the destroyer Audace, the first Italian Navy ship to enter the port, on November 3, 1918. Umberto Saba dedicated his poem Il molo to it.