Trieste - Teatro Romano - foto Comune di Trieste Uff. ImmagineThere are a lots of museum, exhibitions and
other interesting places to visit in Trieste and in the
surroundings.
You can go to the Tourist Information Office in
Piazza Unità d'Italia 4, 34121 Trieste (tel. +39 040 3478312;
fax +39 040 3478320; e-mail: info.trieste@turismo.fvg.it)
and see what the city can offer you for a day trip!
For more information about turist attractions in the city and in
the surroundings, please consult the following websites: Triestecultura; Promotrieste; Turismo FVG. Do you
want to know more about the museums in Trieste? Click
here
What is there to do at weekends?
There are many opportunities to go sightseeing in
interesting places in and around Trieste, in an area uniting Italy
with Austria and Slovenia. There are beautiful places along the
Adriatic coast, or on the Alps, Venice (2 hours by train), or
Ljubljana (about 1 hour and a half by car), Zagreb (about 3 hours
drive) all of which are within manageable distance from
Trieste.
Do not forget to visit Aquileia, Grado, Udine, Gorizia and many
other charming natural places up in the mountains in the Region
Friuli Venezia Giulia.
During wintertime, for those who likes skiing, you can easily go to
the mountains and spend the day there. In about 2 hours you can
reach the following destinations in the region: Piancavallo,
Zoncolan, Tarvisio, Sauris, etc (for further information about
skiing in FVG Promotour). Furthermore you
can also decide to go skiing in Austria - Passo Pramollo or
even in Slovenia - Kranjska Gora
.
For more information about what to do in Friuli Venezia Giulia,
please visit the official website of the Regional Tourist
Board
Do not forget to plan a trip in the surroundings to see
the natural beauties of the Carso plateau. The Trieste plateau
(Altopiano Triestino), called Kras or Carso and covering an area of
about 200 km² for the Italian part has approximately 1500
caves of various size. Among the most famous are the Grotta
Gigante, the largest tourist cave in the world, with a single
cavity large enough to contain St Peter's Cathedral in Rome, and
the Cave of Trebiciano (350 m deep) at the bottom of which
flows the Timavo River. This river dives underground at
Škocjan Caves in Slovenia (they are included in the UNESCO world
heritage list) and flows for about 30 km before emerging at
about 1 km from the sea in a series of springs near Duino,
reputed by the Romans to be an entrance to Hades.
For more information about Timavo river and the Carso plateau,
please visit the following website:
http://www.comune.duino-aurisina.ts.it/turismo/ita/timavo.html
http://www.marecarso.it/da_vedere_timavo.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trieste
Source: Rete civica
Trieste; Comune
di Duino Aurisina; Agenzia Turismo
FVG