WHAT'S ON THIS WEEKEND
21
- 23 March 2014
Quote of the day
The others are simply dictators
or impostors.
Ancient Assamese Annals
Spring is back again with
us, Rejoice!
Friday
21/3: European Day for Ancient Music
Tomorrow the
Wunderkammer festival features two concerts at the Theatrical
Museum "Carlo
Schmidl" downtown (Palazzo Gopcevich, Canale di
Ponterosso, via Rossini) at
17.00 and at 19.00. Both concerts will be visible at
www.e-concerthouse.com
FAI
tours on Sat. 22/3 & Sun. 23/3
The
Italian Environmental Fund, FAI, is
organizing this coming Saturday, 22
March and on Sunday 23 March tours to locations which
are usually closed to the
public. The tours will cover the Commercial Museum in
Piazza della Borsa
downtown, the Neoclassical Stock Exchange building in
Piazza della Borsa or the
Electrical substation conversion at the Old Port built
in 1913. You will only
be asked to donate euro 3/head to the organization or,
if you wish, you can
purchase a bag especially designed by FAI for euro 10.
For more info: http://www.giornatefai.it/luoghi/default.aspx?r=friuli-venezia-giulia#trieste
Friday
and Sunday: CATS at the Rossetti Theatre
This
amazing, historical musical is playing in
Trieste tomorrow, Fri. 21/3 at 20.30 at the Rossetti
theatre in Viale XX
settembre. The show will be performed on Sunday at
16.00 & at 20.30.
For
info call toll free nr. 800090373
or check www.teatroverdi-trieste.com
La
Traviata opera at the Verdi Theatre
On Friday
21/3 at 20.30 the opera "La
Traviata" will be viewed by the public at the Verdi
theatre which is close
to Piazza Unita'.
Other
shows will be held on 22/3, 25/3, 27/3,
30/3, 1/4. Prices range from euro 15 - 115. For more info,
call toll free nr. 800090373
or check www.teatroverdi-trieste.com
Friday,
21/3: JAZZ
with The Groove Machine at
the Miela Theatre
Tomorrow
at 21.00 at the Miela theatre (close
to the train station) the Groove Machine will perform
with saxaphonew, doublebass,
piano, drums. Entrance ticket : Euro 15/head. For more info:
www.vivaticket.it
Art Exhibitions
Art exhibition at the Municipal Art
Gallery "Athanor,
la trasmutazione dell'arte"
by 5 artists Loris
Agosto, Luigi Brolese, Giuditta Dessy, the Ghin Bros.
Venue: Piazza Unita',
Trieste. Open until 2 April, 10-13/ 17-20.
Art exhibition "Memorabilia" by
Triestine
artist Franco
Vecchiet at
the Revoltella museum (Via Diaz, 27) until 30/3/2014. Open every day -
except on Tuesdays - from
10-19.
TOURING
THIS AREA
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
Miramare Castle is right next to the ICTP and is
open every day - except Monday
mornngs - from 9.00 to 18.30. Entrance to the
surrounding park is free (8.00 -
16.00, until the end of February). The location,
gardens, castle with the
lovely decor and furnishings, paintings, rooms full of
history are not to be
missed. Ticket: Euro 4/head. For more info: www.castello-miramare.it
The Castle of Duino is one of
the most attractive castles in Europe and is still the
official residence of
the Torre e Tasso royal family. From its cliff top
location there is a stunning
view of the sea as it overlooks a small fishing
village and is surrounded by
colourful, extensive gardens. Inside, you can admire
the furnishings,
paintings, books and mementoes collected over
centuries; visit its beautiful
park and the World War 2 bunker. Open every day
from 9:30 - 16:30The
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.
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
NATURE AT ITS BEST:
Hiking in Val Rosandra
(half or full day), Trieste
The
Val Rosandra Valley encloses a
remarkable natural environment and it's really
worthwhile to take a walk
through its paths, by the stream and natural ponds,
surrounded by typical
carsic vegetation. Make sure you have good sneakers on
and enough water. Walk
along colour-marked footpaths, each marked by CAI
(Italian Alpine Club),
ranging from very easy paths to others that require a
certain ability. There
are easily accessible caves for speleologists and
archaeology lovers and a
trattoria right at the beginning of the valley. You
can reach it by taking Bus 40 from the
Central Train Station in Trieste and getting
off in Bagnoli della Rosandra.
"La Napoleonica" Panoramic
route mostly
overlooking the sea, on the Trieste karst. Take Bus 4 from Piazza Oberdan to the
"Obelisco" and go walking or jogging on the
Napoleonica (Napoleon's
path). If you wish, you can take path number 12
(marked by C.A.I - Italian
Alpine Club) and reach the Sanctuary of Monte Grisa,
proceed to Opicina through
the Via Crucis path (number 12) and finally return
to the Obelisk and take the
bus back to the city.
MISCELLANEA
Eat out at typical OSMIZE,
local farmhouses
that open up in certain
periods of the year and serve home-made hams, salamis,
cheeses, boiled eggs,
Terrano wines produced by the farmers.
Ring the farmhouses
before going as they are open only in certain months
of the year and on certain
days. Check the list for locations at website:
http://www.fvgnews.net/view.php?t=e&k=6347
ICTP's
Administration takes no
responsibility whatsoever for the correctness or
completeness of the above
information.