Piazza Grande

This historical photograph immortalizes Piazza Grande (today Piazza Unità d'Italia) in Trieste in the Austro-Hungarian era, with its elegant neoclassical palaces framing the vast urban space. The period image captures the atmosphere of the square with numerous citizens in nineteenth-century attire strolling among the monuments, while the green shutters of the historic palaces create a suggestive chromatic contrast. At the center of the scene rise the commemorative statues that characterized this important salon of imperial Trieste, testifying to the architectural grandeur of what would become one of the most celebrated urban spaces in Europe.