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Androna San Cilino

Door with plant

Foro Ulpiano

The Forum ("foro" in Italian) was the public space in the middle of a Roman city. A gathering place of great social significance, it was often the scene of diverse activities, including political discussions, meetings, et cetera (wiki).

Times changed and our Foro Ulpiano, facing the courthouse, is now a car park.

As the Romans would say: o tempora, o mores!

Sunny black and white

Zoom in from Via Virgilio.

Skywatch Friday post (Borino)

The lonely boat moored on the Fratelli Bandiera jetty is the "Borino", the school boat of the Nautical Institute, a prestigious school founded in 1754.

After years of activity, this 23-metre wooden boat is shortly to be dismantled. The Nautical students will remain on land as they wait for a worthy replacement.

See more Skywatch here.

The Synagogue

The Synagogue. Photo taken from Scala Properzio.

Shirt shop Botteri

Camiceria Botteri, by Huib Rademakers
Atelier:
Sint Walburgstraat 24,
9712 HX Groningen

Web site: www.huibrademakers.nl

Architectural Yin Yang

(Piazzetta Tor Cucherna)

Fools read this

Hidden away in one of the narrow lanes of Trieste's old city is one of the most commonplace and childish graffiti, found all over Italy: "fools read this"

The truth is revolutionary

Toy house in Santa Croce

Santa Croce

Just over 15 km from Trieste, at about 200 metres above sea level, lies Santa Croce, a village with a population of 1300.

Strangler

(Miramare Park)

Another back

Following the 'front' and 'back' of recent posts, here's another statue in two parts. This time though, there won't be a 'front'. Tomorrow, I'll reveal the tragic gesture of this fine young man.

Hotel Riviera & Maximilian's

This outdoor lift, linking a hotel to the bathing resort below, is a real eyesore for lovers of the coast.

Washtub

Old public washtubs in disuse. (S.Croce)

Back

(Miramare Park)

Front

back tomorrow

Miramare park

Curtain of light

The windows of the General Registry Office are lit up by the sun as it is setting, and their reflection adorns the facade of a historic building.

Ugo Guarino

This huge mural has adorned a hidden corner of the old town for many years now. It bears the signature of certain Ugo Guarino. And that's all I can tell you about it. I've found info on one Ugo Guarino, a painter, graphic designer and sculptor, who was born in 1927. In 1972, he began working with Franco Basaglia's team on the closure of the mental hospitals. Is it the same person? And what does this mural mean? Does anyone out there know anything about it? Can you quench my curiosity??

The dog of Trieste

(a dog in San Giacomo. Photo by Lionella)

"El can de Trieste" (The dog of Trieste) is a famous song by Lelio Luttazzi.

The song is about a lonely man far from his beloved Trieste. So a friend called Trevisan gives him a dog, that was born in an Osteria. But this dog is always sad and Trevisan explains why in the refrain: "Only in front of a bottle of wine, does that son of a dog jump all over me in happiness, because he's a son of Trieste and he likes wine". So the man learns to drink from his dog. He's aware he'll probably die because he's drinking too much but he's happy, as his dog is now happy.

Listen to the song

El can de Trieste

Xe tanti ani ormai
che son lontan de ti
vecia Trieste mia
son resta' solo e
gavevo voja de
voja de compagnia
alora Trevisan
ma ga' manda' un bel can
nato in un' osteria
pero' quel fiol de un can
quel fiol d'un can d'un can
el era sempre triste
no' l me fazzeva mai le feste
gnanca a mi
che so el suo paron
alora go manda' una cartolina
una cartolina de protesta
alora el mulo Trevisan me ga' risposto
el me ga' spiega' perche'
Solo davanti
aun fiasco de vin
quel fiol d'un can fa le feste
perche' xe un can de Trieste
perche' xe un can de Trieste
davanti
aun fiasco de vin
quel fiol d'un can fa le feste
perche' xe un can de Trieste
e ghe piasi il vin!

Da qualche mese in qua
a bever go impara'
come un facchin del porto
e in 'sta maniera so
che un giorno sentiro'
la mia campana a morto
ma chi se ne.... (pardon)
che i fazzi pur din don
se moriro' contento
perche' quel fiol d'un can
quel fiol d'un can d'un can
el xe cussi' beato
adesso me lecca come un mato
perche' spuzzo sempre piu' de vin
e so che'l me vol ben
che go' un amico
per la prima volta in vita mia
e a mi me basta un ano
de 'sta bela vita
e po' sara' quel che sara'....
Solo davanti
aun fiasco de vin
quel fiol d'un can fa le feste
perche' xe un can de Trieste
perche' xe un can de Trieste
davanti
aun fiasco de vin
quel fiol d'un can fa le feste
perche' xe un can de Trieste
e ghe piasi il vin!
e ghe piasi il vin!
e ghe piasi il vin!
e ghe piasi il vin!

3 windows (2)

A steep narrow lane leading up to Muggia Castle.

3 windows (1) ...

... and another section of the facade seen yesterday - on the right, of course.

Facade

The facade of Muggia Cathedral (1263).

Skywatch Friday post

The gulf in a purplish orange summer dusk.

See more Skywatch here.

Muggia

It's time to leave the tower and cross the small gulf towards Muggia, the village nestled in the only part of the Istrian peninsula which was left to Italy after the Paris (1947) and Osimo (1975) Treaties.

In this photo you can make out the Bell Tower (centre left) and the Castle on the right.

Naval dockyard

And here finally: the tower of the Naval dockyard, guarded by the two lions I posted yesterday and the day before.

The walls of the Lloyd Austriaco dockyard, designed in the mid nineteenth century, are covered in white limestone from the quarries of Pula in Croatia.

Lions (2)

The other lion watching over the "Torre del Lloyd". Definitely in bad shape, perhaps because he is less sheltered from the wind which has eroded away all his mane.

Lions

One of the lions on guard at the Lloyd Austriaco Tower.

Trapped

Another shot of the Church of the "Madonna del Mare dei Frati Minori"

Miramare from under an awning

Skywatch Friday post

Another section of "Campo Marzio Smistamento"

See more Skywatch here.

The bather

Statue portraying a bather, known as 'La Mula de Trieste' (young lady from Trieste, in dialect), as she undresses, looking out over the sea.

by Nino Spagnoli (1920-2005).

Live in Piazza Unità

Goldoni

Goldoni Square heavily manipulated.

4 in a row

From left to right: the People's Library, the seventeenth century Church of Beata Vergine del Rosario, the eighteenth century Marenzi palazzo and at the very back the modern facade of the General Registry Office (1954-58).

Sistiana Jetty

The missing part

IONE
GIA
OSA

(Beware slippery shoreline)

Frati Minori

Church of the "Madonna del Mare dei Frati Minori" (1957).
There's an interesting story about this church. The town council, in order to help the poor monks finish its construction, which was becoming a long dragged out affair due to a lack of funds, gave the congregation a lot of stone from old tombs which had been removed from the Sant'Anna cemetery. This is why the white stones, dotted up the pillars and on the facade, used to bear and some still bear the names and dates of a distant past.

Salone degli incanti

One of the entrances of the former fishmarket.

Acquario (2)

European lobster.

Acquario (1)

On the evening of April 21 1933, the new town Acquarium was inaugurated, attended by the town's VIPs.

The building was built alongside the Fishmarket so that the same water system could be used for both.

Still now the very same system is used for supplying water to the tanks: the water is pumped in from the end of the wharf with powerful pumps which drive it into two containers holding about 5000 litres each, placed at 10 metres above ground level, in the clock tower. It is then carried into the tanks along water ducts.

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Windows, windows, windows.
For more, click on the "windows" label

Monte Grisa Temple

See this old post for more details

Court house