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Trieste district
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Trieste,
in north-eastern Italy, is located on a
thin
stretch of land which runs between the Adriatic Sea and the
upland plains which border the former.
Municipal
capital of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, it
has more than 200,000 inhabitants.
Created in grand style by the Habsburgs to give Vienna access to
the bright blue Adriatic Sea
the City has a mysterious personality, given the ethnic mixture
of its cultures, part Italian and part Slovenian.
For
instance, Italian and Slovenian languages are considered as
autochthonous to the region, while there are also some Croatian
and German speaking minorities too.
Anchored to
unforgettable history, it is today a border town par excellence,
well renewed for literature and music and why not, for being
constantly battered by the ?Bora?, an icy and powerful
northeasterly wind, tolerated as an inevitable feature of the
city.
The city
shows numerous examples of Art Nouveau and Neoclassical
architectures of Austrian influence and above all a splendid and
suggestive coastline.
Most notably, James Joyce was a long-term resident.
In January 2005 a plaque was unveiled at San Saba, an old rice
mill outside town, to commemorate the homosexuals murdered in
World War II.
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