Comments on: Trieste

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 21:55:53 +0000

We didn’t have enough time on our visit which meant we left a lot of thing unexplored.

By: J_on_tour

J_on_tour — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:26:39 +0000

Some lovely architecture. It would be nice to spend some time there.

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 21:19:09 +0000

In this instance it doesn’t derive from the Spanish word. This is what Wiki has to say about it:

“The original pre-Roman name of the city, Tergeste, with the -est- suffix typical of Illyrian, is speculated to be derived from a hypothetical Venetic word *terg- “market”, etymologically related to Old Church Slavonic tьrgъ “market” (whence Slovenian and Serbian трг / трг / тржница and the Scandinavian borrowing torg).[4][5][6] Roman authors also transliterated the name as Tergestum. Modern names of the city include: Italian: Trieste, Slovene: Trst, German: Triest, Hungarian: Trieszt, Croatian: Trst, Serbian: Трст, Trst, and Greek: Τεργέστη, Tergesti.”

The building is Governement Palace it houses the offices of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region and the Prefecture.

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 21:09:08 +0000

I would like to go back to explore further, although it is not a place I would actually like to stay for more than a night.

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 21:08:08 +0000

We didn’t get chance to explore the canal region. Our tour guide told us about the spying and how the square was lined by cafes each exclusive to a particular nation so that they couldn’t be overheard by each other.

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 21:05:12 +0000

We only had a morning there which wasn’t long enough to explore properly.

By: Chrysalis

Chrysalis — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 17:35:44 +0000

An exalted environment – not at all what one might expect from its name – the word “Trieste” reminds me of the Spanish word “Triste,” which means “sad” (possibly in Italian as well). However, I see no “sad” here, only breathtaking beauty

The palatial-looking building, what was it historically and what is its function now?

I see some cross-cultural influence in architecture on that one, if I’m not mistaken.

By: Donna@Living From Happiness

Donna@Living From Happiness — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 14:54:02 +0000

A spot I had not seen profiled by other travelers….lovely!

By: wiggia

wiggia — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 13:56:00 +0000

I was fortunate to visit Trieste in the early eighties whilst visiting the vineyards in Friuli in the Veneto.
The canal region is spectacular and the whole place has a style of mixed Hapsburg and Venetian .
It also has a reputation for being a centre of spying during the last war being in such a crossroads of nations, very much still a place not on visiting lists, but it should be.

By: London Caller

London Caller — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 10:18:16 +0000

I would like to visit Trieste one day too.