View from Duino castle

The four continents (4)

The four continents (3)

The four continents (2)

The four continents (1)

As I told you in an old February post, the Four Continents Fountain in Piazza Unità has, in the past, been a victim of acts of vandalism. The four statues depicting the four continents (Australia is missing because it had not yet been discovered when the fountain was built) had had their hands chopped off and one had even been decapitated.

They have since been restored, based on old photographs preserved in the Civic Museum of History and Science.

And so finally the missing pieces are in place. Here we begin with the head of Africa. Over the next few days, I'll be posting the new hands.

Province Headquarters

Post it

(Piazza Cavana)

Bread street

Via del Pane.

Lego

Via Piccardi

Pray before you buy

Butcher's in Via Carducci (covered market)

Strangled

Old and new

Do you see what I see?!

Kaleidoscopic entrance

No, it's not a hotel foyer, nor is it the entrance to a swimming pool, it's the entrance to the hippodrome in Montebello.

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Wedding car.

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Flowers??

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Mural on the gate to the incinerator. It's very interesting to see the way it works. And of course no one doubts that only flowers come out of the chimney stack...

Palinuro's lifeboats

Palinuro is in town. See this old post of Livorno Daily Photo for more info about the training ship (thanks Trillian and Vagon).

Oggi sciopero (on strike today)

Long live the bride and groom

ST. Ulderich church is one of the most ancient churches of the Triestine Karst and probably dates back to the 15th Century.

It stands just outside Samatorza village, in a quiet and isolated area.The style of the front is particularly interesting. On top of it, is a stone flat belfry with three bells.

The latest restoration of the building was accomplished in 2005.

Nereid

A detail of the fountain in Piazza Vittorio Veneto: a Nereid carrying a shell.

The Nereides (or Nereids) were fifty Haliad Nymphs or goddesses of the sea. They were the patrons of sailors and fishermen, who came to the aid of men in distress, and goddesses who had in their care the sea's rich bounty. Individually they also represented various facets of the sea, from salty brine, to foam, sand, rocky shores, waves and currents, in addition to the various skills possessed by seamen. The Nereides lived with their elderly father Nereus in a silvery cavern at the bottom of the Aegean Sea. The Nereid Thetis was their unofficial leader, and Amphitrite was the queen of the sea. Together with the Tritones they formed the retinue of Poseidon.(source)

Lessons in Triestine dialect (2)

In Piaza Granda xe un monumento
de Carlo Sesto, del Mile e Seizento
che sufi vento, che sufi bora
tuti i colombi ghe svola sora.

Nella Piazza Grande (oggi Piazza Unità) c'è un monumento
di Carlo Sesto, del Milleseicento
Che ci sia vento che ci sia bora
tutti i piccioni gli volano sopra.

In Piazza Grande (today Piazza Unità) there's a monument
of Carl the sixth, from the seventeenth century.
Be it gusty, be there the bora wind,
all the pigeons fly all over him.

These are the official lines of an old Triestine song. The verb "svola" ("vola", "fly") was usually replaced by a much more colourful verb.

Where is our summer?

Just a little sun and some hot weather, that's all we ask for....pretty please!

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The importance of being a shadow

Toy building

Three's company

Optimist dinghies in Sistiana.

When there's no wind, the only way to move at all is to stand up and steer the helm back and forth. Sooner or later, a gust of wind will get the fun going.

Bagno marino

But in among all the abandoned sites (see two previous posts) there is still one corner that's alive and kicking in this part of the Old Port - the Railway workers' seaside resort. The rusty old bridge that crosses the railway tracks takes you to a bathing resort with a bar, showers, bathrooms, changing rooms and a solarium. All very spartan and decadent, just how the Triestines like it.

pointless points

A close up of the railway tracks I posted yesterday; they have long been disused and nature has taken over, curling round the tracks in her path.

no cars

There are cars on the road, but they are well hidden behind the white pillars, so all I needed to do was to change the colour of the photo to sepia for it to take us back to Trieste in olden times.

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Post modern buildings

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The monolith

Theme day: empty

The humongous, desolate warehouses in the old port. In the nineteenth century they were heaving with goods for and from the Empire. Now they are empty and awaiting their ever-postponed destiny.

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