Ponte Nuovo (New Bridge)

Hand-coloured vintage postcard of the Ponte Nuovo in Trieste, busy with passers-by and traders along the crowded quay. In the foreground a dense forest of sailing-ship masts moored in the basin testifies to the harbour's intense mercantile activity at the turn of the twentieth century. In the background the warehouses of the Free Port and the hills surrounding the city stand out under the soft tones typical of Viennese chromolithographs of the period.