Trieste

Trieste is an Italian town that is the capital of the province of the same name and of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region.

Trieste, fulcrum of the historical-geographical region of Venezia Giulia, acts as a bridge between western and central-southern Europe, mixing Mediterranean and Central European characters.

Its port, today the largest and most important in Italy and one of the most important maritime hubs in Europe, was the main maritime outlet of the Hapsburg Empire, which in 1719 recognized it as a free port. Even today the port remains of fundamental importance for the transit of international goods.

The free port was maintained, with the name of Free Port of Trieste, also in the peace treaty between Italy and the allied powers of 1947 with which the Free Territory of Trieste was established, and later also in 1954, when the Allied Military Government ceded civil administration to Italy by virtue of the London Memorandum.

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