Getting to Trieste: a practical transport guide
Everything you need to know to reach Trieste by plane, train, car or bus, with journey times, frequencies and up-to-date costs.
Travel guide to Trieste
Everything you need to visit Trieste: accommodation, itineraries, food and transport.
Practical guides
Two Days in Trieste: Just Enough Time for a City That Refuses to Be Rushed
Trieste isn't a quick stop — it's a city-world between Austria, Italy and Central Europe. Two days to discover it properly, from historic cafés to Miramare and hidden wine farms.
Where to Stay in Trieste: Sleeping Between the Bora Wind and the Adriatic in Italy's Most Literary City
From Habsburg palaces in Borgo Teresiano to seaside B&Bs overlooking the gulf, an intimate guide to finding your perfect base in authentic Trieste.
Where to Eat in Trieste: Jota, Buffets and Osmize Between Central Europe and the Adriatic
In Trieste, food tells centuries of borders: jota and goulash, Central European cafés and Carso wines, in a city that resembles nowhere else.
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Articles about Trieste
August Against the Current — Art Cities in Glorious Emptiness
In August Italy's great art cities empty out. Here's how to enjoy Turin, Bologna, Genoa and the rest without crowds, que…
Where to Go in Italy in January — 10 Destinations with No One Around
January is Italy's most underrated travel month: empty cities, prices slashed up to 40%, and ten surprising destinations…
Palmanova: The Perfect Star-Shaped City
A sixteenth-century star-fortress and UNESCO World Heritage Site, where streets converge on a hexagonal piazza with geom…
The Karst Behind Trieste: Caves, Sinkholes and Osmize
A plateau of rock and wind where the earth opens in spectacular chasms and hidden osmize offer genuine wines and cured m…
San Daniele del Friuli: Far More Than Prosciutto — the Guarneriana and the Hilltop Borgo
San Daniele del Friuli is far more than its celebrated DOP prosciutto: this hilltop borgo is home to the Guarneriana, on…
Cordovado: The Medieval Borgo of Secret Gardens in Western Friuli
Cordovado, a walled medieval borgo in western Friuli, conceals secret gardens, fourteenth-century frescoes and an atmosp…
Fagagna: The Stork Village Among the Hills and Castles of Friuli
Fagagna, on Friuli's moraine hills, is home to Italy's only white stork reintroduction station and a bewitching ancient …
Aquileia: Friuli's Little Rome, Where Palaeochristian Mosaics Meet a Lost Forum
Aquileia, Friuli's UNESCO site, preserves the largest palaeochristian mosaics in the Western world and the ruins of one …
Palmanova: The Star-Shaped Fortress City Poised Between Venice and Austria
Palmanova, Friuli's nine-pointed star fortress, is a masterpiece of Renaissance military urbanism still perfectly intact…
Venzone: The Friulian Borgo That Rose from the Rubble, Home to Its Mysterious Mummies
Venzone, a medieval Friuli borgo rebuilt stone by stone after the 1976 earthquake, keeps naturally preserved mummies and…
The Parenzana: Cycling a Ghost Railway Across Three Nations
A 130 km cycling route along a vanished narrow-gauge railway linking Italy, Slovenia and Croatia through vine-covered hi…
The Parenzana between Slovenia and Croatian Istria
A former Austro-Hungarian railway that once linked Trieste to Parenzo, now a greenway among the tunnels, viaducts and ol…