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Monday, May 14, 2007

HISTORICAL ENTRY
Trieste is a city that has lots of history from the past in its walls. For 500 years Trieste has been part of the Austrio-Hungarian Empire apart from the little Napoleonic period in which Trieste was part of Italy. From 1918- 1943 Trieste was part of Italy and with the fall of fascism till 45 it as part of Germany. With the fall of Germany Trieste (or TS) is amministrated by the ONU till 54 and after the 54 it was part of Italy. Trieste is known for:its big port , for its Roman Theater, for the Teatro Verdi, for the Piazza dell'Unità d'Italia, for the Sala Tripcovic, for the Molo Audace, for the castello di Miramare, for the castello di San Giusto, and most important its port! Trieste as all other Itlaiancities has its own dialect: Triestino. Many important writers worked and wrote famous works in Trieste:Italo Svevo, Umberto Saba, Scipio Slataper, Enzo Betiza, Fulvio Tamizza, Maria Rilke, Claudio Magris, Pino Roveredo, James Joice, and Susanna Tamaro which is a relative of Sophia Tamaro my classmate. The “foibe”(carsic cavities or deep holes) were used to throw in during was dead people or also alive ones: politicians, prisoners or simple war enemies. The Foibe di Basovizzza have been stated national monument in 1992 by the Italian government. Trieste has lots of history in it, I think you should visit it!

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