Science makes Trieste great again

Dec 07, 2019 547

BY: Valeria Ferraretto

Trieste is the European City of Science 2020. "I think it was fundamental for me to experience that great opening of the Gulf of Trieste, a sea in itself modest but that gives a sense of openness, the endless horizon that seems to prelude other, larger seas and oceans" — Claudio Magris

Border regions and cities have always had a certain charm: different populations and languages meet there, one country slowly fades into another. For its natural conformation, Trieste represents a border city which is particularly open, bridging the East with the West, the sea with the mainland. Once part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, then point of contention between Italy and the Balkans, it fascinated and inspired poets, artists and intellectuals such as James Joyce, Italo Svevo and Umberto Saba.

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SOURCE: https://italicsmag.com/

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