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...