Trieste Self-Guided Tour: Romans, Habsburgs & Mussolini

Highlights

• Self-Guided Audio Tour
• 19 Historical Stops
• Offline & Flexible Access

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Molo Audace - Gia "Molo S. Carlo"

   Pass by

   Stand on the pier whose namesake destroyer was Japanese by design and Scottish by birth.

2. 2

   Stop 2

   Pass by

   Trace the bilingual plaque marking the spot where Mussolini chose Italy's largest seaside square for his worst speech.

3. 3

   Stop 3

   Pass by

   Look up at the spirit of Trieste, vanished for thirty-two years to make room for a dictator's stage.

4. 4

   Stop 4

   Pass by

   Step inside the café whose engraved mirrors once chronicled the city, before invading armies looted them.

5. 5

   Palazzo del Municipio

   Pass by

   Watch two black metal figures swing their hammers above the square at the top of every hour.

6. 6

   Stop 6

   Pass by

   Pass beneath a Roman gate whose name comes from a king who was never here.

7. 7

   Stop 7

   Pass by

   Find the seam where two early Christian churches were fused into one cathedral in the fourteenth century.

8. 8

   Stop 8

   Pass by

   Climb the Habsburg fortress that never fought a war, but jailed an alchemist with a mercury cure.

Before you go

Location