Bartoli house — Attraction in Trieste

Designed by Max Fabiani between 1905 and 1906, this building is considered one of the most elegant examples of Art Nouveau architecture in Trieste. Influenced by the Vienna Secession, it features a distinctive green-and-white diamond pattern, decorative plant motifs, and curving balconies. Notably, it is one of the few buildings in Trieste constructed using reinforced concrete. Originally intended for both residential and commercial use, the ground floor once housed Restaurant Goldberger, a kosher restaurant rooted in Jewish-Hungarian tradition. Today, the building serves as the headquarters of the Free Trieste Movement, with a banner on the veranda reading: 'Welcome to the Free Territory of Trieste, U.S.A. and...

The claim is that Trieste, declared free territory after 1947 under the control of the American and British governments, has never formally been returned to Italy after the Allied forces left in 1954, and should therefore resume its regime of free port. The movement believes that there being no documents stating the opposite, Trieste should remain independent from the rest of Italy, thus enjoy a regime of...

Casa Bartoli, situato in piazza della Borsa, oltre ad essere un magnifico edificio in stile Liberty, è anche la casa natale dei coriandoli, si proprio quelli di carnevale...Ettore Fenderl, celebrità nel campo della fisica nucleare, durante la parata di Carnevale che passava sotto casa sua in piazza della Borsa, non avendo a disposizione confetti o petali di rose da lanciare sul corteo, tagliuzzò pezzettini di carta colorata e li lanciò sulle maschere che passavano. Fu subito imitato da tantissimi presenti e l'invenzione si propagò velocissima a Vienna, Venezia e in tutto il mondo. Così furono inventati...