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Old Town
Trieste boasts an extensive old town: there are many very narrow and crooked streets with typical medieval houses. Nearly the entire area is closed to traffic.
Half of the city was built under Austrian-Hungarian dominion, so there are a lot of palaces that resemble Vienna. An iconic place of this quarter is the majestic Piazza Unità (Unity Square), which is Europe's largest sea-front square. The most present architecture styles are Neoclassical, Art Nouveau, Eclectic, and Baroque.
A walk on the castle ramparts and bastions gives a complete panorama of the city of Trieste, its hills and the sea. It was built between the 15th and 17th centuries by the Habsburgs to control and defend the city. Its thick walls and bastions reflect evolving military architecture, while today it houses a museum and offers sweeping views over Trieste and the Adriatic Sea. Access is also possible via the elevator at the underground carpark of Park San Giusto on Via del Teatro Romano.
Church of Sant’Antonio Taumaturgo in Trieste is a grand Neoclassical church dominating the end of the city’s Grand Canal. Built between 1825 and 1849 to a design by the architect Pietro Nobile, it is the largest Catholic church in Trieste and reflects the city’s 19th-century growth and prosperity.
Foro Romano
The heart of the ancient city of Tergeste. Although only fragmentary remains of the Roman Forum survive—mainly paving, columns, and foundations—the site marks the civic and religious core of Tergeste.
Contains Roman and Medieval relics, and a cenotaph to the archaeologist Johann Winckelmann, father of neoclassicism, who died in Trieste in 1769.