The Strike of the Firemen of the Lloyd Austriaco in February

A compact crowd in Piazza Nuova, today Piazza della Repubblica in Trieste, in front of the headquarters of the Società Operaia Triestina. The historical photo depicts the procession of the firemen of the Lloyd Austriaco during the strike of February 1902, with the street filled with demonstrators and onlookers in early twentieth-century attire. Among nineteenth-century buildings and street lamps, the atmosphere is tense, a prelude to the clashes that caused 14 deaths. An urban view that tells a crucial page of Trieste.