Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Trieste, Italy
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10.6 km
350 m
Experience Trieste in Italy in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Activities in TriesteIndividual Sights in TriesteSight 1: Politeama Rossetti
Politeama Rossetti is an Italian theatre situated in the city of Trieste. With over 60 shows scheduled each season, running from October to June, its stage shows include plays, musicals, ballet, dance and rock concerts.
Sight 2: Civico Orto Botanico
The Civico Orto Botanico di Trieste is a municipal botanical garden located at via Marchesetti 2, Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy.
Sight 4: Nuovo Tempio Istraelitico della Città di Trieste
The Synagogue of Trieste is a Jewish house of worship located in the city of Trieste, northern Italy.
Sight 5: Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Taumaturgo
The Church of Sant'Antonio Taumaturgo, is the main religious building in the Borgo Teresiano in the centre of Trieste as well as the city's largest Catholic church. It stands on a square also known as Sant’Antonio Nuovo, at the end of the Grand Canal.
Sight 6: Tempio Serbo-Ortodosso della Santissima Trinità e di San Spiridione
Saint Spyridon Church is a Serbian Orthodox church in Trieste, Italy.
Sight 7: Museo della comunità Ebraica di Trieste Carlo e Vera Wagner
The Jewish Museum “Carlo and Vera Wagner", is located in via del Monte 5/7, Trieste, Italy. It was inaugurated in 1993, by the initiative of Mario Stock together with the generous support of the Wagner-de Polo family.
Sight 8: Monumento ai Caduti della I Guerra Mondiale
The War Memorial is a monument dedicated to the Trieste fallen of the First World War located inside the park of remembrance on the Colle di San Giusto in Trieste.
Sight 9: Cattedrale di San Giusto
Trieste Cathedral, dedicated to Saint Justus, is a Roman Catholic cathedral and the main church of Trieste, on the Istrian peninsula in northeastern Italy. It is the seat of the Bishop of Trieste.
Sight 10: Christchurch
The Anglican Temple or Anglican Church is a place of worship located in Trieste, Italy, in Via San Michele.
Sight 11: Arco di Riccardo
The Arco di Riccardo is a Roman triumphal arch in Trieste, Italy. The 7.2 metre arch is the only remaining part of the city's Roman walls, constructed from 33–32 BC.
Sight 12: Basilica di San Silvestro
The Basilica of Christ the Saviour, also known by its ancient name of Basilica of San Silvestro, is a religious building located in Trieste, Italy. The 11th-century Romanesque basilica is the oldest preserved sacred building in the city after the early Christian basilica and since 1785 it has been owned by the Evangelical Reformed Community of the Swiss Confession, which in 1927 had entered into an agreement with the Waldensian community for the joint use of the building by both Evangelical Reformed churches, which remained in force until 2020.
Sight 13: Chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore
The Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, better known as the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, and also known as the Baroque church of the Jesuits, is a religious building located in Trieste, in the province and diocese of Trieste; it is the seat of a parish included in the deanery of San Giusto Martire.
Sight 14: Teatro Romano
The Roman Theatre of Trieste is located at the foot of the hill of San Giusto, in the heart of the city, on the edge of the old city, between Via Donota and Via del Teatro Romano.
Sight 15: Civico museo d'arte orientale
The Civic Museum of Oriental Art is located in Via San Sebastiano 1, in the Palazzetto dei Leo, near the Old Town of Trieste.
Sight 16: Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi
The Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi is an opera house located in Trieste, Italy and named after the composer Giuseppe Verdi. Privately constructed, it was inaugurated as the Teatro Nuovo to replace the smaller 800-seat "Cesareo Regio Teatro di San Pietro" on 21 April 1801 with a performance of Johann Simon Mayr's Ginevra di Scozia. Initially, the Nuovo had 1,400 seats. In 1821, it became known as the Teatro Grande.
Sight 17: Chiesa di San Nicolò dei Greci
The Greek Orthodox Church of San Nicolò dei Greci, Trieste, Italy, is a historical Greek Orthodox Church built in 1784-1787 and re designed by architect Matteo Pertsch. The building is also known as the Greek Orthodox Church of San Nicholas and Most Holy Trinity. The iconostasis was painted by Spyridon Sperantzas
Wikipedia: Greek Orthodox Church of San Nicolò dei Greci (EN)
Sight 18: Museo teatrale Carlo Schmidl
The Carlo Schmidl Civic Theatre Museum is located in Trieste, in the city centre, in Borgo Teresiano, on the bank of the Grand Canal.
Sight 19: Molo Audace
Book Ticket*Molo Audace is a pier located on the shores of Trieste, Italy right in the centre of the city, a few steps from Piazza Unità d'Italia and the Grand Canal. It separates the San Giorgio basin from the San Giusto basin of the Old Port.
Sight 20: Civic Marine Aquarium
The Marine Aquarium of Trieste was founded in Trieste in 1933 on one side of the building of the former Central Fish Market.
Sight 21: Museo Revoltella - Galleria d'arte moderna
The Revoltella Museum is a modern art gallery founded in Trieste, Italy, in 1872 by Baron Pasquale Revoltella. The baron, after he left his house to the city and all the works, furniture and books it contained.
Sight 22: Museo Sartorio
The Civico Museo Sartorio is a museum in Trieste, northern Italy. Set in an urban villa, it exhibits ceramics, majolica, porcelain and pictures, typical equipment of Trieste's villas at the end of the 19th century.
Sight 23: Speleovivarium Ervin Pichl
The Speleovivarium is an exhibition complex dedicated to speleology and a bio-speleology laboratory.
Sight 24: Civico Museo del Mare
The Museum of the Sea is a historic Trieste museum founded in 1904, which houses a vast collection of documents and objects that tell the story of the port and maritime activity of the city of Trieste.
Sight 25: Museo ferroviario
The Trieste Campo Marzio Railway Museum is a museum in Trieste (Italy), concerned with railway and tram transportation. It is housed in Trieste Campo Marzio railway station, the former Trieste Staatsbahnhof during the Austro-Hungarian period and one of the two main terminal stations in Trieste. Since July 2017, the museum has been closed for renovation by the Fondazione FS.
Sight 26: Lanterna
The Lanterna di Trieste is a lighthouse at the top of the Molo Fratelli Bandiera, at the west end of the city, marking the entrance to the old port.
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