Pasar la frontera se hizo largo, volvieron a sellarme el pasaporte.
A Trieste, Italia llego 9.30 El viaje fue malo, el colectivo incómodo, sin baño, el conductor antipático, tuve que rogarle para que parara en un lugar donde poder ir al baño. Hablaban todos alto, la música estaba fuerte. Me invadió de pronto la mezcla de croata gritón mezclado con italiano. En la estación se me hizo interminable esperar tantas horas, en Croacia es casi imposible conseguir un taxi y los colectivos también demoran muchísimo. Así que tomé un bus nocturno, esperé de 00.45 a 5.30 am que partió el bus con todos los inconvenientes descritos anteriormente. Me cobraron 12 K para subir la valija. 
Trieste is set between the sea and the hills and stands out on the horizon white and bright against the blue of the sea and sky. It looks like a sort of last Meditarrean mirage to everyone who comes to this northern stretch of Adriatic coast. Many streets overlooked by imposing palaces of great architectural value, which recall the extraordinary development enjoyed by the city during the 10th century.
Greek-Orthodox Church of San Nicolo dei Greci; Church of San Antonio Taumaturgo a Nuovo; Church of San Silvestro; Parish Church of Santa María Maggiore; Serbian-Orthodox Church of San Spirindione; Synagogue built in 1912 according to the plan by Arduino and Ruggero Berlam.
Trieste, diverse architectural styles:
Neo-classical (Palazzo Carciotti; “Giuseppe Verdi” Opera Theatre; Stock Exchange Palace; Curch of Sant´Antonio Taumaturgo o Nuovo); Eclectic (Palazzo Gopcevic; Railway Station; RAS Oakace; Postal Palace; Railway Palace); Art Nouveau (Casa Bartoli)
Castello
di Miramare: National Museum, residence of
Archduke Maximilian of Hasburg and of his wife Charlotte. The white fairy-tale
castle standing sheer above the sea.
San
Giusto Castle: Saint Justus Castle, the symbol
of Trieste. Built between 1471 and 1630 on the homonymous hill, the Castle was
the heart of the old city.
Piazza
Unita d´Italia: Europe´s largest square
overlooking the sea, it can be considered one of the largest and most beautiful
squares in the world. It was renovated in 1999 by architect B. Huet.
Trieste literary tours The lives of many famous men who were born in
Trieste or spent part of their lives in Trieste have found their ideal setting
on the Rive (city shores) and in the harsh Karst inland. Following their steps
can be intriguing and interesting.
Italo
Svevo (Ettore Schmitz) was born in Trieste in 1861. He was a friend of
Joyce. He is one of the main contemporary Italian writers. The places of his
life and those mentioned in his novels (Una vita; Senilitá; Cosienza de Zeno)
still evoke an irresistible charm.
Zeno Consciousness; As a man grows older; A life
es, de acuerdo a Riccardo Cepach, quien está a cargo del Museo de Joyce y de
Svevo, el orden de mejor libro. Va justamente al revés de cuando fueron
escritos: el último es el mejor.
Reiner Maria Rilke The poet from Prague (but Austrian origin)
stayed at the Duino Castle in 1911 and 1912 as a guest of the Princess of Thurn
and Taxis : here, he drew inspiration for the lines of his “Elegie Duinensi”. A
panoramic path is named after him.
James
Joyce, born in Dublin in 1882 and died in Zurich in 1941, is one of the
main European writers of the 20th century. He spent two periods in
Trieste from 1904 to 1915 and from 1919 to 1920. Here, he finished the writing
of “Dubliners” and “A portrait of the Artist as a Young man”. In Trieste, he
also wrote the prose poem “Giacomo Joyce” and the drama “Exiles”. Even his most
famous work, “Ulyses”, was planned in Trieste, where he also wrote some of its
most signicant chapters. The Irish writer moeved to various homes during his
stay in Trieste: all his homes are traceable and the places he frequented are
several and reconstructable. Umberto Saba Trieste can also be enjoyed through
the eyes of another poet: Umberto Saba. The son of U. A. Poli and of R. Cohen,
his pen name was inspired by his beloved
wet nurse. “Coi miei occhi” (With my eyes) is his first collection of
poems (1912): the poet looks at himself through the city of Trieste, which is a
constant and essential presence in all his works. In via San Nicolo there is still
the homonymous bookshop which he managed since 1919 (LIBRERIA ANTIQUARIA UMB
ERTO SABA).
Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), a
famous British consul, explorer, translator, orientalist, ended his adventurous
life in Trieste; here, he wrote a book on the Roman Thermae of Monfalcone and
his most renowned book: the translation of “The Arabian ninghts” published in
sixteen volumes from 1885 to 1888 with the title of “One thousand and one
nights”.
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