City guide to Trieste

With its complex past and rich cultural mix, the coastal city of Trieste at Italy’s most northeasterly tip has a vibrant, vigorous atmosphere buoyed by the locals’ cheerful irony. The traditional cuisine, also full of contrasts, is underpinned by a thriving, well defined wine scene.
This compact, cosmopolitan city near the Slovenian border stretches along the Gulf of Trieste like a wide-toothed comb, with a series of jetties ideal for enjoying sunsets over the sea.
Trieste’s ri