Italy's forgotten city, with all the beauty of Venice but none of the crowds
Italy's forgotten city, with all the beauty of Venice but none of the crowds Paula Hardy © Getty trieste - Getty A hundred years ago, Trieste was one of the great seaports of the world – an animated Riviera town, and a Mitteleuropean trading hub as easily accessible by rail from the Baltic as it was from Egypt by boat. The city’s home-grown shipping company, Lloyd Austriaco, pioneered the first leisure cruises, and helped bankroll the Suez Canal in order to ensure Trieste’s pivotal role between Europe and the rest of the world. So, how is it these days that so few p...
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