In the heart of Trieste the hotel overlooks the most famous pedestrian street for strolls ... more
and shopping The structure is an old beautiful building and is elegantly furnished within a refined and comfortable environment Staying at the Hotel Continentale ...
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The Hotel Continentale is situated in the central Via San Nicolò, the most elegant ... more
pedestrian street, famous since the last century for its Cafés and now privileged destination for shopping. Close to Piazza Unità d’Italia, the main square, the hotel al...
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Advantages: Only two hours away, compact size Disadvantages: Didn't have long enough there!
On 5th March 1946 in Fulton, Missouri, Winston Churchill, then Leader of the Opposition in Great Britain, declared 'From Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the continent.' Until I had cause to visit Trieste earlier this year that is what Trieste meant to me - a quote I learnt at school. It was fitting, then, that Trieste should be an overnight stop on my way to Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia and until the early 1990s behind the 'iron curtain' and firmly within the Soviet sphere of influence as defined by Churchill.
Trieste is situated in the far north western corner of Italy in the region of Friulli-Venezia Giulia, which borders Slovenia and Austria. It is a former Habsburg city and this influence is apparent from the architectural styles of its more recent buildings, its cuisine ...
fizzytom 22.10.2004 (08.08.2005)
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Advantages: Impressive rock formations, very memorable attraction Disadvantages: Not suitable for young children or people with limited mobility, not as good as other nearby caves
Hey ho, another review - another cave. Recently I reviewed the magnificent karst caves at Postojna in Slovenia; this time it's another karst cave not far away in Italy, just outside the city of Trieste. The Grotta Gigante is billed as the "biggest tourist cave in the world" which, having been to Postojna I have to take issue with. I can only imagine that this must be referring to the central cavern in Trieste because Postojna is a huge complex of caves of which the visitor sees only 5 Kilometres of the twenty-odd that have been explored. The Grotta's vital statistics - 107m high, 65m wide and 260m long. I've dug up some statistics that might enable readers to put these facts into perspective - the Eiffel Tower is 324 Metres high, the Tower of "Big Ben" is 96.3 Metres tall and the Angel of the North is 20 Metres high.
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Advantages: cheap, enough to occupy you for a few hours, easy to reach Disadvantages: not that much to see really
Jason and the Argonauts were said to have stopped in Trieste in the hunt for the Golden Fleece. With this being Italy I had been expecting this to be a case of the Golden Fleecing of a stupid tourist? Read on to see if I got fleeced?
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During my recent trip to Slovenia, I decided to take a day trip to Trieste, especially as it was only just over an hour away by bus from Piran, where I was staying. It also gave me a chance to try and complete a set of Italian Euro coins or two for friends (demanding friends I have!). The other recent was to be able to say that I had visited both ends of the where Churchill?s ?Iron Curtain? stood.
Churchill?s quote was as follows: ?From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an Iron Curtain has come down over Europe?, a quote which has of course descended into history. Well ...
Morgenhund 23.09.2002
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