Piazza della Barriera Vecchia, Trieste

Vintage postcard depicting Piazza della Barriera Vecchia in Trieste, a lively square in the city centre lined with elegant Liberty-style and 19th-century buildings. The card bears an Austro-Hungarian 5-heller stamp featuring Emperor Franz Joseph, cancelled with a postal postmark. Passers-by, carriages and a horse-drawn cart animate the scene, capturing everyday life in early 20th-century Trieste, then the main port of the Habsburg Empire.