WHAT'S ON THIS WEEKEND
13 - 16
February 2014
Quote of the day
Let the future tell
the truth, and
evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments.
The present is
theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
Nikola
Tesla
Talk on
Trieste this evening with Piero Budinich at 18:30 at Cafe'
Tommaseo
Today
at 18.30 Piero Budinich (the
son of the late renowned Paolo Budinich) editor and owner of
the Beit editing
company will talk about his publications together with writer
Corinna Opara who
published an interesting and handy tourist book in English
entitled "Three
days in Trieste". Venue: downtown, Key Tre Viaggi, Via S.
Caterina 7. Free
entrance. The talk is in Italian, but Piero speaks excellent
English and can
reply to non Italian speaking participants.
Science Cafe'
this evening at 18:00 at Cafe' Tommaseo
At the historical Cafe'
Tommaseo this evening at 18.00 in
Italian by neurophysicist Marcello Turconi on "Mens sana in
corpore
sano" (A heathy mind in a
healthy
body) and Alessandro Crise, OGS researcher, on the
Mediterranean sea and its
health. Location: close to Piazza Unita'. Free entrance for all.
Art Exhibition
Flash Mob tomorrow in Piazza
Unita' at 18:00 against
violence against Females
Each
year, one upon three
women in the world, are subject to violence, an unforgiveable
atrocity.
Tomorrow, "One Billion
Rising",
a peaceful protest, will take place in Trieste as well as in
the rest of the
world to stop this savagery against women and children. Everybody can join in the
protest against
such horrible violence. The event will begin tomorrow at 16.00
in Piazza Unita'
with special guest stars. The Flash
mob dancing will take place at 18.00
there with
participants dancing to the music by Tena Clark "Break the
Chain".
Wear black or red clothes. Everyone can join. The details on
the Flash mob are
available on Facebook.
MISCELLANEOUS
Special Courses for new Parents and
Grandparents
Whomever
needs
comfort/tutoring/information about raising his/her
newly born baby or being a calm and relaxed grandparent, can follow courses by
'Associazione
Bimbi Nuovi' that will start as from 17/2 and are the absolute
must to helping
you to become a confident parent and updated grandparent. Good
for parents with
adolescents too. For info call 3339766538 or email
vivianaessenya@yahoo.it
Meditation walk in the karst on
Sunday 16 February
Family
Garden is organizing an unusual initiative-walk
on Sunday 16 February. Meeting at 10.30 am at the main road
(Strada Costiera) where
there is the Santa Croce junction. The participants will be
met by two lady
experts on meditation and yoga and it will be - provided the
weather is good -
a very interesting experience. Take your picnic -lunch
along, dress up casually
and with good shoes. Call 3474437922 or 3347520208 for info
on cost or write to
r.jurada@gmail.com
Ski season in the Friuli Venezia
Giulia Region and Pramollo
ski resort in Austria. For more info on slopes, ski pass
prices and weather
forecast, check: http://www.promotur.org for ski in the FVG
Region, Austria:
http://www.nassfeld.at/en/winter/
And general ski maps
in Italy:
http://skimaps.skiforum.it/skimaps/index.php
TOURING THIS
AREA
The Giant Cave - Grotta Gigante
is considered the
largest tourist cave in the world, situated in the Karst half
an hour from the
city centre. An exclusive feature of the cave is the
horizontal pendulum,
constructed by university researchers in order to calculate
the slightest
movements of the earth's crust. Visiting times every hour:
10:00 - 18:00. Each
visit lasts one hour. Entrance ticket:
Euro 11/each. For groups of over 15 persons: Euro
5/head. Take bus 42
from Piazza Oberdan and get off at Borgo Grotta, Sgonico –
proceed by foot for
5 minutes – follow road
sign for Grotta Gigante. Wear comfortable shoes, no heels.
Check website: www.grottagigante.it
Guided
tour of Trieste every
day at 10.30 a.m.: A 2 hours guided walking tour through the
main sites and
monuments of Trieste. The tour is in Italian and English and
costs euro 7/pers.
Book your tour by calling the FVG Tourist Office in via dell'
Orologio 1 (on
the corner of Piazza Unità): 040 3478312.
The
Revoltella
Modern Art Museum is located
downtown; it was founded
in Trieste in 1872 by Baron Pasquale
Revoltella who left his house to the city
(located in Piazza
Venezia) after he passed away. It still displays all the art
works, furniture
and books of his time. The main building was built in 1858,
designed by Friedrich Hitzig and
later on, in 1907
the City acquired the Brunner Building located nearby in order
to expand the
original collection. This building has been completely
utilized only since 1963, following its
restructuring of
Carlo Scarpa. Its entrance is from Via Diaz
27. It has a
remarkable collection of modern art (1860 to 1970), baroque
art and 1700s and
1800s furniture, located in a superb environment. Not to be
missed! Open from
10:00 - 19:00, closed on Tuesdays.
The Civico Museo Sartorio is a Villa that once
belonged
to the Sartorio dynasty originally from Sanremo. A branch of
the
family moved in 1775 to Trieste as part of its business
expansion. Pietro
Sartorio here with his family and bought the house, previously
owned by the
merchant family Faraon, originary from Alexandria of Egypt.
The last heir of
the Sartorio family, Baroness Anna Segrè Sartorio, left the
villa and all the
furniture to Trieste's city council with the explicit wish to
make it a public
museum.
The villa was used by the Allies, as
their headquarter
after WW2, as can be seen by the marks on the tiles and walls
where the
telephone and electric leads were brought through. Besides the
villa itself
being a very interesting building architecturally, it contains
drawings of
famous XVII century artists Giambattista Tiepolo.
Visit
the Museum of the
Sea in Viale Campo
Marzio, 5 at the far end of the
seafront downtown. It tells the history of shipyards,
navigation and fishing in
the Adriatic Sea, displaying models of ships, dioramas and old
navigation
tools. Special sections are dedicated to Giuseppe Ressel and
experiments by
Guglielmo Marconi. Open
each day from
Thursday to Tuesday, from 9.00 - 13.00.
For more info see: www.museodelmaretrieste.it.