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The Railway and the Development of the Old Port of Trieste
The salvos of the cannons of the ships anchored in the Trieste harbour reverberate in the Piazza del Macello, now Piazza Libertà. A motley crowd of workers from the outskirts, bourgeois from the city centre and farmers from the Carso crowd the arches of the new railway station. The voices of the common people wind through the air, a spark of anticipation and excitement. When the hands of the pocket watches ticking in the pockets of the waiting bourgeois mark 10.30:XNUMX, a whistle penetrates the air, followed by the flutter of a smokestack and the vaporous panting of an arriving train. It is the first, historic, convoy to travel on the Vienna-Trieste Railway. The Emperor of Austria...
Trieste multicultural gateway to Europe
Anglo-Saxon literature, politics and historiography have traditionally looked with interest and curiosity at Trieste, not only as a geopolitical hub ("From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the continent" denounced Winston Churchill on 5 March 1946), but also as a multicultural city. The extreme appendix of Italy, the outlet to the sea of Central Europe and an outpost towards the Balkans, the Julian port has been the object of study of the historian Neil Kent, who dedicated to it the essay "Trieste. Adriatic emporium and gateway to the heart of Europe" (Hurst, London 2011)....
Fiume and Trieste, the story of two free ports
Saturday evening dedicated to culture, July 24th at the Casa del Consul in Calice Ligure where, at 21:00 pm, the history and writing enthusiast Elisabetta Bertolotti will present her latest book "Il confine orientale tra Fiume e Trieste - Storie di due porti franchi", published by Prospettiva. It is a short popular essay that, starting in depth from the first half of the 18th century, when the two Central European cities became two free ports by Habsburg will, leads to the post-war period in what can undoubtedly be defined as one of the Italian border regions among the most steeped in history, often very...
