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Trieste, Italy
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Things to do in Trieste

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Ninety seconds on Trieste

A Habsburg port on the Adriatic pressed against the Slovenian border, with a limestone plateau behind it that is riddled with caves. The word karst comes from this landscape.

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Things to do

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  1. Castello di Miramare

    Castello di Miramare

    Castle · 2 hr

    A white castle built on a spit of rock for Archduke Maximilian in the 1850s, with its park and its interiors left as he furnished them. He left it to become emperor of Mexico and was shot there.

  2. Grotta Gigante

    Grotta Gigante

    Landmark · 1.5 hr

    A single chamber large enough to hold a basilica, and for years the largest show cave in the world by that measure. Five hundred steps go down into it and the temperature stays around eleven degrees whatever the season.

  3. Piazza Unita d'Italia

    Landmark · 30 min

    The largest sea-facing square in Europe, closed on three sides by Habsburg civic architecture and open on the fourth to the Adriatic. It is the centre of the city's evening.

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