Trieste: A Borderland Interlude 🌉

This morning, I bid farewell to Venice 🛶 and made a deliberate detour to Trieste—Italy’s "almost-Slovenian" port city—before crossing into Slovenia. What a fascinating pitstop! 🏛️ A City Out of Place Unlike Italy’s sun-drenched piazzas, Trieste whispers Central European secrets: • Austro-Hungarian DNA 👑 – Ruled by Vienna for 500+ years until WWI • Roman theater ruins 🏛️ (humble but hauntingly preserved) • Piazza Unità d’Italia ⛲ – A windswept seaside square flanked by Habsburg-era palaces 🌊 Three-Hour Love Affair With limited time, I wandered: • Along the canal promenade 🚶♂️ (now a sleepy strolling path) • Past cafés where James Joyce once scribbled 📖☕ • Through streets that felt more Prague than Palermo No tourist crowds. No gimmicks. Just salt-kissed air and the quiet pride of a city that’s always been in between. #Trieste #OffbeatItaly #BorderTales #SlowTravel