New technologies have enabled us to travel even by just moving a finger on our smartphones. Here tourism has become somewhat virtual. And we have noticed it in these two years of lockdown and pandemic. Enabling it was the innovation introduced in 2007, just 15 years ago, by Google, which after changing our lives with the Maps application, launched...

If you’re from New Jersey and looking for a European getaway, you won’t need to travel very far. Located in Northeastern Italy near the Slovenian and Croatian borders, you will find a charming city called Trieste that has plenty of history and a rich culture that visitors can experience and enjoy. There is plenty to see in Trieste and it is also an...

Application deadline 31 May 2022. Program starts 31 October 2022. APPLY NOW. The  Origini Italia Program in Export Management and Entrepreneurial Development is reserved for the descendants of Italian emigrants worldwide. The Program is organized by MIB Trieste School of Management, in cooperation with ITA (Italian Trade Agency), the Friuli Venezia...

The eight-part Inspector Vivaldi Mysteries miniseries proves that a good mystery never loses its intrigue or goes out of style.  Seeing the characters talking on flip phones and dumb phones, and watching them research crimes on antiquated computers is a minor distraction but it is a dead giveaway that this isn’t a brand new production. In fact, now...

“Fusion cuisine”—by which various elements of various Eastern and Western food cultures are combined in both artful and wacky ways—may seem a contemporary, if passé, culinary buzzword. But nowhere does the term make more sense than in the beautiful port city of Trieste and its surrounding region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia in northeastern Italy, where...

In every Italian city, the day's rhythm begins at the cafe. But in Trieste, a city on Italy's north-east coast, that rhythm comes with a twist. Wander into any cafe here and, in addition to the familiar clinks of cups and hissing of steaming milk, you'll hear people ordering "capo in b": a mini cappuccino served in a glass that's a favourite of Tri...

Italy is not exactly renowned for dinosaurs. In comparison to its excellent artistic and archaeological heritage, dinosaur fossils are very rare. Not surprisingly, the discovery of the first isolated remains from these animals, in the early 1990s, generated quite an excitement, but were shortly after considered nothing more than an exception to a g...

On tiny pockets of terraced terrain overlooking a bay shared by Italy, Slovenia and Croatia, Milos Skabar is reviving a centuries-old winemaking tradition known as Prosekar, which shares roots with its better-known bubbly cousin, Prosecco. But this humble fizzy blend, virtually unknown beyond the Italian port city of Trieste where it’s made on a st...

Needless to say that every single Italian town holds historical, artistic, and natural beauties, yet a trip to Trieste will have you see it in a different way compared to other Italian towns.  It could be referred to as a frontier town, sea town, and mountain location, but what makes it different is the order and rationality. Spending someday there...

For sea and sailing enthusiasts and for those who do not want to miss a one of a kind show, the event takes place annually in Trieste on the second Sunday of October. It is the Barcolana, the international sailing regatta with the largest number of sailboats racing in the world. The event is characterised by over a week of celebrations both on land...