Trieste is a true and authentic city at a crossroads, a crossroads of paths, cultures, peoples and national identities that come together in this beautiful and well-kept city. Actually, the true personality of Trieste is plural because Romans, Byzantines, Lombards, Venetians, Austrians, Slovenes, Germans, Croats passed through it and, more recently, it became part of Italy.

Trieste, that hybrid and mixed city, always a frontier, always sad and exciting, as the professor and writer Claudio Magris defined it. An open, cosmopolitan city with a notable cultural, architectural and historical heritage, Italians and Slovenes have always coexisted there, but also other Slavic communities and a Jewish community of Sephardic origin.