What to see in Trieste

Scientific Imaginary Science Center

The Science Centre Immaginario Scientifico is an interactive and multimedia science museum, where visitors get the chance to actually experiment and play with science. In the interactive area Fenomena, you can find hands-on exhibits such as the...

Speleovivarium - Speleology Museum

The Speleology Museum is located in a gallery in the centre of Trieste, built during the Second World War as an air-raid shelter, with environmental characteristics similar to those in the natural Karst caves. The Speleovivarium of Trieste hosts...

Audace Pier

A 246-metre-long pier in the city centre, a few steps away from Piazza Unità d'Italia. A walk along this pier is a must! You can observe the city and its magnificent square overlooking the sea…directly from the sea!

Originally, the Molo...

Campo Marzio Station

The first station of Saint Andrei built in 1887, (architect Seeling) is a beautiful example of liberty style. The building, structurally moved, presents a central part in more levels and more connected corps. The facades typically liberty,...

Antiquarium and Via Donota Necropolis

The Antiquarium is an archeological zone with annexed museum located in the tower of the medieval wall, called Donota Tower. The findings on exhibit come from digs made starting in the 1980’s behind the Roman theater, along via Donota and...

Morpurg Museum

Opulent rooms in Imperial, Renaissance, Moresque, Neo-Baroque and Neo-Rococo style in what was once the residence of the Morpurgo family. The fifth floor hosts the Museo di storia patria (Museum of National History), a collection of relics on the...

Lapidarium Tergestino

The Lapidarium Tergestino is located inside the Castle of S. Giusto, in the 16th century Bastione Lalio / Sotterraneo, it exhibits Roman tombstone findings, which lead the visitor to discovering ancient Tergeste. Inside the Lapidarium Tergestino...

Giovanni Scaramangà di Altomonte Foundation Museum

This small museum was set up by a donation of the collection belonging to Giovanni Scaramanga, a rich, entrepreneur from the city who was a descendant of a noble, old, Greek family. Inside, a great number of items of historic interest and value...

Petrarchesco Piccolomineo Museum

The Petrachesco Piccolomineo Museum of Trieste preserves a bibliographic and iconographic collection concerning the life of the 14th century writer Francesco Petrarca and of Enea Silvio Piccolomini, bishop of Trieste and later Pope, with the name...

Palazzo Brambilla Morpurgo - State Library

The "Public Library of the People of Trieste" was instituted in 1956, immediately after the return of the town under Italian administration. With a special emphasis on the social objectives of promoting literature, the library, originally called...

Diego De Henriquez Peace War Museum

The museum Guerra per la Pace exhibits part of the collection of the scholar from Trieste, de Henriquez: uniforms, ship models, military sanity objects, archive documents, books and iconographic material. In the area there are heavy-duty vehicles...

Villa Revoltella's historic garden

Rotunda Pancera

Building attributed to the architect Matteo Pertsch, but in the local archives doesnít exist the original project of Pertsch. Are instead documented enlargement interventions by De Puppi (1831) and Buttazzoni (1832-33). In projecting Rotonda...

Salon of the Incantes - Former Central Fish Market

Built in 1913, it is a work by the architect Giorgio Polli, who invented a kind of building functional and aesthetically acceptable. The mediation between the different requirements seemed to be possible in the model of the basilica, that...

Sanctuary of Santa Maria Maggiore

Characterised by a Neoclassical façade inspired by the Roman churches of the time, this church was opened in 1682. The interior is spacious and majestic, and hosts the Madonna in Sorrow attributed to Sassoferrato, and the frescoed apse depicting...

Governament Palace

Situated on the right hand side of Piazza Unità d’Italia (as you look out towards the sea), it was built in 1904-5 with the name Palazzo della Luogotenenza (the Lieutenant’s Building). It boasts two significant elements: a double central porch...

Sea Museum

It offers an interesting panorama of the town’s marine history with many models, navigations instruments and various relics. Of particular interest are the studies on propellers for steam ships that were first experimented with in Trieste in 1829.

Museum of Homeland History

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...

Risorgimento Museum and Oberdan Shrine

Located in the Casa del Combattente (The Fighter’s House), which also contains a memorial dedicated to Guglielmo Oberdan and the prison cell in which the irredentist was jailed following the attempt to assassinate Franz Joseph, Emperor of...

Fountain of the Four Continents

Built between 1751 and 1754, it was intended to represent Trieste as a city favored by fortune thanks to the establishment of the free port by Charles VI and the development policies of Maria Theresa of Austria. The world is represented by four...

Church of St. Nicholas of the Greeks

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...

Ursus

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...

Antiquarium and Roman Aqueduct

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...

Antiquarium and Seminary Walls

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...

Chamber of Commerce Museum

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...

Triestino Nativity Museum

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...

Mineralogy and Petrography Museum

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...

Museum and Archive of Slovenes in Italy

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...

Servol Ethnographic Museum

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"...

Historical Museum of Miramare Castle

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...

Small Museum

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...

Stables of the Castle of Miramare

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...

Warehouse of the Winds - Bora Museum

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...

Palazzo Pitteri

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...

Lloyd Palace

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...

Palazzo Dreher

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...

Palazzo Economo

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...

Palazzo Gopcevich

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...

Farneto Park

Villa Giulia Park