Immaginario Scientifico is Trieste's science museum where you do the experiments with your own hands: it takes up part of Magazzino 26, the huge late-19th-century warehouse in the Porto Vecchio. It follows the model of English-speaking science...
The Speleovivarium is Trieste's small museum of speleology, set in a World War II air-raid tunnel in the San Vito district, at the foot of the stairway on Via Guido Reni. Inside, the microclimate is that of a real cave.
The star is the...
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...
Campo Marzio Station is Trieste's old terminus, the city's second station after Centrale: an early-20th-century Art Nouveau building, closed to passengers since 1960 and now home to the city's railway museum.
Don't miss the main hall, with...
The Antiquarium of Via Donota is a small archaeological site at the foot of San Giusto Hill, behind Trieste's Roman theater: the remains of a Roman house that became a cemetery. In a small space it tells how the people of Tergeste lived, and...
The Museo Morpurgo is the untouched home of a wealthy 19th-century Trieste family, on the third floor of a building in the city center: an apartment left just as it was, kitchen and bathroom included. It was left to the city in 1943 by Mario...
The Lapidario Tergestino is Trieste's museum of Roman stones, in the vaults of the Lalio Bastion of San Giusto Castle: about 130 finds that tell the story of Tergeste, the ancient city, with inscriptions, reliefs and statues.
The stones...
The Museum of the Giovanni Scaramangà di Altomonte Foundation is a private collection on the history of Trieste, in the neoclassical palazzo that was the family's home. It is for those who love the city of old, seen through the papers and objects...
Trieste's Museo Petrarchesco Piccolomineo holds books, manuscripts and images about two great figures of the Renaissance: the poet Francesco Petrarca and Enea Silvio Piccolomini, bishop of Trieste from 1447 to 1450 and later Pope Pius II. It is a...
Palazzo Brambilla Morpurgo is a 19th-century neoclassical palazzo on Largo Papa Giovanni XXIII in Trieste, home of the Stelio Crise State Library. Plain on the outside, inside it shows off the taste for luxury of Trieste's wealthy middle...
The Diego de Henriquez War Museum for Peace is Trieste's military museum: weapons, vehicles and memorabilia gathered by a single man, displayed so that seeing war up close teaches people to want peace. It has been open since 2014.
The...
The Historic Garden of Villa Revoltella is the park that the enormously wealthy Baron Pasquale Revoltella had built on the hill of Chiadino, in Trieste, around a chalet for short holidays and hunting trips. Today it is a public park of about...
The Rotonda Pancera is a neoclassical palazzo in Trieste with a façade curved like a round temple, bent around the sharp corner of a wedge-shaped plot at the edge of the old town. It is attributed to Matteo Pertsch, the architect who left the...
The Salone degli Incanti is Trieste's former Central Fish Market, on the Rive waterfront: a 1913 fish market that looks like a basilica, bell tower included, and is now the city's large exhibition hall.
Inside, the reinforced-concrete hall...
Santa Maria Maggiore is the great Baroque Jesuit church of Trieste, at the foot of San Giusto Hill on Via del Collegio: a two-tier façade divided by Corinthian pilasters and, inside, a broad, solemn interior.
Inside, laid out as a Latin...
The Palazzo del Governo is the building on Trieste's Piazza Unità d'Italia that glitters with golden mosaics: built in 1905 as the seat of the Austrian Lieutenancy, it now houses the Prefecture. It stands on the right side of the square as you...
Trieste's Museo del Mare tells the story of the city's port and the evolution of ships, since 2023 in Magazzino 26 of the Porto Vecchio, a huge late-19th-century warehouse. It is the right place to understand why Trieste was born and grew up on...
The Museum of History and Homeland is a collection of documents related to the city. Its rich collections (documents, relics, paintings, prints) on the history of the city and its territory have been closed to the public to make room for the...
The Museum of the Risorgimento and Oberdan Memorial is Trieste's museum devoted to the city's long road to Italy, from the uprisings of 1848 to World War I, on Via XXIV Maggio. Its strongest piece is the cell where Guglielmo Oberdan was locked...
The Fountain of the Four Continents is the Baroque fountain in the middle of Piazza Unità d'Italia in Trieste, lined up with the town hall: carved between 1751 and 1754 by Giovanni Battista Mazzoleni from Bergamo, it celebrates the city grown...
The Church is situated on the seafront and is consecrated to Saint Nicholas, patron of sailors, ship-owners and all those involved in maritime trade. Following the split between Serbian Orthodox and Greek Orthodox communities over which language...
The Antiquarium is located on the site where, between 1976 and 1977, the remains of the Roman aqueduct from Val Rosandra were discovered. This was one of three aqueducts that served the Roman city of Tergeste, dating back to the 1st century AD. A...
The site preserves a long portion – 2.40 meters wide and 4 meters high – of the ancient city walls, consisting of two outer faces in sandstone blocks filled filled with stone and lime. At its base is a moat for collection of the runoff from the...
On the second floor of "Palazzo Dreher” a bit hidden from the eyes of passers-by, but already known for its peculiarities, is located the Museum of the Commercial Chamber of Commerce of Trieste. Opened on the 20 October 2005, the museum was...
The museum houses approximately 150 nativity scenes collected over the years, showcasing the tradition, creativity, art, and culture of Trieste. They offer a comprehensive overview of the various interpretations of the nativity in Italy and...
The Mineralogy and Petrography Museum is part of the Geosciences' Department of Trieste University and reffers to the University Museum System SMATs. Constituted back in 1949, it exhibits approximately 1500 samples of minerals and rocks from all...
The small museum houses objects and documents related to the culture of this people, including a collection of diatonic accordions and traditional costumes. It also offers a rich library and photo archive in the same premises, documenting the...
The Ethnographic Museum of Servola holds documents and objects linked to production activities, the social and religious life of the Triestan district of Servola from the end of the 1700s to 1960. On the ground floor, a typical "servolana"...
This historic residence was built by Maximilian of Habsburg between 1856 and 1860. It preserves its original furnishings and a rich collection of artworks on display throughout the visitor route. Temporary exhibitions and cultural events are held...
The Little Museum is a private collection and an educational project aimed at children, based on the belief that treasuring memories of the past is crucial for building the future. The Museum is not just a collection of precious objects, but a...
The Stables of Miramare Castle, designed by engineer Carl Junker at the behest of Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Habsburg, were built between 1856 and 1860.
The building, situated on the access road to the Castle coming from Trieste, is...
With its 75 metres of height it may look like the Eiffel Tower. But its "foundations" lie at sea, in a corner of Trieste's Porto Vecchio (Old Harbour), at Pier 23. It is one of the largest and oldest floating cranes: the Ursus.
The Ursus...
The Wind House or Magazzino dei Venti - Progetto Bora Museum of Trieste is the space for wind and imagination. It is the laboratory, the showcase of an idea: to create in Trieste the "North-East wind and Wind Museum" or Museo della Bora e del...
Situated on the left of the Town Hall, this is one of the most elegant and characteristic 18th century buildings in Trieste. It was designed by Uldarico Moro in 1780 and makes use of, Rococo elements and assimilates them with the Neoclassicism of...
The Regional Government's headquarters is located here today. The imposing Palazzo del Lloyd Triestino (then the Austro-Hungarian Lloyd Shipping Company) was erected between 1881 and 1883 based on a design by architect Heinrich von Ferstel in the...
This corner building, next to the old Stock Exchange building, with its magnificent curved façade, is also called the New Stock Exchange, as the town’s stock exchange operations were transferred there in 1928. It was built at the end of the 10th...
This building faces onto the large square in front of the Railway Station. It was designed by Giovanni Scalmanini and Leonardo Zabeo in 1884 for a family of entrepreneurs of Greek origin. The building consists of a central body and two towers at...
Situated on the banks of the Canale Grande (Grand Canal), its distinguishing features are the twin-coloured bricks and elegant windows. It was designed by Giovanni Berlam, a rich Serbian merchant, in 1850. The façade is decorated with four...