Long-form essays on Trieste's history: architecture, literature, communities, daily life.
From the secret Veneziani paint managed by Italo Svevo to the Alba automobile that lasted two years, from Barcola's crystal ice to the English biscuits of Barriera Vecchia: a journey through the vanished industries of Habsburg Trieste.
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From the first daguerreotype of 1839 to the ateliers of Piazza della Borsa: the story of Trieste's photography pioneers, from the Austrian Lloyd studio to the Wulz dynasty, Sebastianutti & Benque and the first women photographers.
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From Baron Pasquale Revoltella's will to the museum's founding in 1872: the story of a visionary patronage that turned a private palace into Italy's oldest modern art gallery, between purchases at international exhibitions and Carlo Scarpa's redesign.
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The saga of the Cosulich family: from the sailing ships of Lussinpiccolo to the Austro-Americana line, from the Martha Washington of 1908 to the Monfalcone shipyard, up to the Saturnia and Vulcania. The dynasty that carried Trieste across the ocean.
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From the first horse-drawn omnibus of 1860 to the last run of tram number 9 in 1970: over a century of public transport in Trieste, through horse trams, electrification, trolleybuses and buses.
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From the Theresian aqueduct to Giovanni Battista Mazzoleni's three fountains: the Four Continents, Neptune and the Giovanin del Ponterosso. History, allegories and anecdotes of the eighteenth-century fountains that quenched the thirst of mercantile Trieste.
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After Napoleon's fall, his brothers and sisters chose Habsburg Trieste as a refuge: Elisa Baciocchi, Caroline Murat and Jérôme Bonaparte lived here under false names and the close watch of the Austrian police.
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Three centuries of shipbuilding in Trieste: from the 1719 free port and artisan yards to the Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino and the battleships of the k.u.k. Kriegsmarine.
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From the Soglio di Nettuno (1823) to the Bagno Maria, from Doctor Guastalla's thalassotherapy to the 1911 storm: the story of the floating bathing establishments that turned the sea of Trieste into a drawing room on the water.
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Insurance, steamers and culture: founded in 1833, the Austrian Lloyd carried Trieste's flag from Venice to Bombay, invented the cruise and became Vienna's maritime arm. The story of the Adriatic's greatest company.
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Why in 1382 a small free city chose the Duke of Austria rather than become Venetian, and how Trieste kept its own institutions for centuries: the long prelude to the free port of 1719.
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From Charles VI's free port to the Theresian Borough, from the Austrian Lloyd to the cosmopolitan city of Joyce and Svevo: the great arc of Habsburg Trieste, told in a single journey from 1719 to 1918.
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