WHAT'S ON THIS WEEKEND                                        17 - 21 April 2014

Quote of the day

Amidst all the attention given to the sciences as to how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily problems of mankind, I believe that the biggest breakthrough will be the realization that the arts, which are considered "useless," will be recognized as the whole reason why we ever try to live longer or live more prosperously. The arts are the science of enjoying life.

                                                                                                            John MAEDA

 

OUTSIDE TRIESTE > NEXT WEEK

Don't miss the

RADIO AMATEUR APPDAYS FAIR (Fiera del Radioamatore) at PORDENONE,  25 - 27 April,

Italy's most important Fair for electronics, low cost informatics and radio amateurs with hi-fi car and tuning. Over 200 stands.

The fair will be held at Viale Treviso 1, Pordenone from 25 - 27 April, 9:00 - 18:00 hrs

Our colleague, Benvenuto Bazzo has been invited to this important event to give several talks (AppDay) covering topics that stretch from how to create good, low cost computers, to giving info, tips and professional advice/suggestions, how to get free applications to manage Apple OS X informatic requirements, how to install the Apple OSX 10.9.2 operational system from scratch and so much more. There will also be an interesting collection of the first, historical Macs displayed  by B2Mac Co.

Tickets: Euro 8.50, free for kids till the age of  13. For info: http://www.radioamatorepordenone.it/iniziative/appdays/

 

If you finish early, you might like to visit the city of Pordenone as its old city center is well preserved, and it has an impressive City hall and clock tower, a Gothic loggia and a Cathedral bearing a superb bell tower and richly frescoed interior. Corso Vittorio Emanuele II is the city's main thoroughfare, and is lined with handsome historical buildings, such as Palazzo Mantica-Cattaneo and Palazzo Ricchieri; Palazzo Ricchieri is the site of the Civic Museum of Art, with its collection of precious paintings and wooden sculptures.

 

Today at 21.30: Bassekou Kouyate  at Teatro Miela

Tonite Mali's Bassekou Kouyate - who won two BBC3 awards and is one of the most active artists in Mali -  will perform with the ngoni, a 3-string lute made from a pumpkin and covered with goat skin. He played with International artists like Dee Dee Bridgewater, Mongrel, Oumou Sangare. Cost: Euro 15/head. Teatro Miela is close to the main railway station.

 

Tomorrow, Friday at 18:00: Chamber music at the Governor's palace in Piazza Unita'

The concert "Il 18 alle 18" starts at 18:00 and is directed by Fabiana Noro. The choir from Ruda  will sing music by Kedrov, Schubert, Rossini, Strauss and Mendelssohn. For info: www.acmtrioditrieste.it or call 040 3480598

 

Tomorrow Friday at 21:00: "The best of Musical" concert show at the Rossetti Theatre

This amazing musical will give you a taste of the great musicals (Beauty and the Beast, Mamma mia, Sister act, Saturday night fever) we all appreciated with the participation of some of the real protagonists . Playing at the Rossetti theatre in Viale XX settembre.

For info call toll free nr. 800090373 or check www.teatroverdi-trieste.com

 

Tuesday, 22 April: Edward Clug dances at the Verdi Theatre

On 22/4 at 20.30 Clug will perform with music by C. Debussy and I. Stravinsky. The Ballet troupe is from the National Croatian Theatre of Zagrab and centred on the Six epigraphes antiques eand En blanc et noir. The orchestra of the Verdi theatro will play directed by the Croatian master Mladen Tarbuk.

Other shows will be held on 23/24/26 April at 20.30 and 26/4 & 27/4 at 16:00. For more info, call toll free nr. 800090373 or check www.teatroverdi-trieste.com

 

18/4 - 22/4: BASIC COURSE ON CLIMATE AND METEOROLOGY

The ISMAR Library, in cooperation with CNR, is organizing from 18 - 22/4 a free course (for the members of UMFVG) from 18:30-20:00 on the above topics held by experts belonging to the Meterological Union of our Region. The lessons, lasting 1.5 hrs each, will take place at the ISMAR library in Viale Romolo Gessi 2. For info and signing up write to segreteria@umfvg.org or see www.umfvg.org

 

Art Exhibitions

First Contemporary Art exhibition at CEI (Central European Initiative) in via Genova 9, (close to Piazza della Borsa downtown) entitled "Europa Paradigma Est" with paintings by contemporary artists Raffaella Busdon, Tullio Sila, Franco Rosso, Patrizia Bigarella, Giuliana Bali, Piero Toresella, Bruno Tommasini, Caroll Rosso Cicogna, C. Vranich, Di Giacco, Demundo, Fonda, Gerzel, Qing Yue.  Open until 30/9, visit during office hours. Every first Friday of the month, guided tour at 16:00. For info: 3493162540.

 

Art exhibition "Momenti vissuti"  by Triestine artist Tullio Sila at LUX Art Gallery in via Rittmeyer 7. Open until 19/4, on Mon-Tues-Thurs-Fri-Sat,  from 17.00-20.00.

 

TOURING THIS AREA

 

ON Easter Sunday all the museums downtown will be open and free for all. Don't miss this!

EASTER STALLS in Piazza Sant'Antonio downtown where you will find chocolates, cakes, Easter eggs and all the chocolate that will make you and your children happy and smiling !

 

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 (in Piazza Unità): 040 3478312.

 

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

 

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.

 

THERMAL SWIMMING POOL

- The Acquamarina thermal pool (towards the end of the seafront, close to the Ausonia bathing establishment) at Molo f.lli Bandiera 1, Trieste, is equipped with a swimming pool, jacuzzi tubs, saunas, a fitness and massage centre and a lot more. The pool has salt water at a temperature of 30-32 degrees and is therapeutic for whomever suffers from pains, sprains and else. There are acquagym and other courses organized in the evenings. It is open to the public for swimming only, but timetables can be awkward  as on Mon, Wed & Fri it's open from 7.40 - 13.00; Tue & Thur from 10.20 -13.00 & from 15.40 - 17.00;  Sat 7.40 - 13.00; Sun 7.40 - 11.40. Tickets cost euro 6,60/head for the pool only - one is allowed to stay in the pool for 80 minutes -, if you include jacuzzi with pool, it costs euro 9,10.

Take bus 8 from Roiano or from the train station. For info see: www.2001team.com/acquamarina/ or call 040 301100.

 

HISTORICAL CAFES IN TRIESTE

Caffe' Tommaseo was founded in 1830 by Tommaso Marcato coming from Padua. The Café immediately became a privileged meeting place for artists, businessmen and politicians; in 1848 it was renamed in honour of the writer and patriot from Dalmatia, Tommaseo. Famous for having introduced at the beginning of the century the novelty of ice-cream, Café Tommaseo is a bright, sophisticated and elegant place: the mirrors, which were brought directly from Belgium about one hundred years ago, the chairs made in bent wood and the decorations, which are the work of a painter from Trieste Giuseppe Gatteri, all stand out with elegance.

Caffè Stella Polare is situated in the heart of the Teresiano borough, next to the Serbian Orthodox Church of San Spiridione and very close to Piazza Sant'Antonio. It started as a typical Austrian-Hungarian Café, with the classical decorations of stuccoes and mirrors which are still partly present and for years the place was a refuge for shopkeepers and intellectuals coming from Trieste and abroad; with the end of the Second World War and the arrival in the city of the Anglo-Americans, this Café became a famous ballroom: from here many young women from Trieste sailed for the United States, happy wives of young American soldiers. 

Caffe' degli Specchi was opened in 1839, founded and managed by the Greek Nicolò Priovolo. The Café was first on the ground floor of Palazzo Stratti, in that same Piazza Grande (which became Piazza dell'Unità d'Italia in 1918) that continues to represent the heart of the city. Thanks to this special position, the Caffè degli Specchi immediately became a privileged place where to follow all the historical, political, economic and cultural happenings of the city of Trieste. Over the years the Caffè degli Specchi was managed by many different owners and it underwent great changes: in the period following the Second World War, for instance, the Café was requisitioned by the Anglo-American allied forces, and it was then that the Royal Navy emblems were placed inside.

The cosy Bar ex Urbanis came to life from the ashes of a pastry shop in the first half of the nineteenth century and it is made precious by a mosaic floor which bears the date of its foundation:1832.

Opened in 1914, Caffè San Marco immediately became a meeting place for newspaper readers and a laboratory for the production of fake passports, which were allegedly needed by anti-Austrian patriots to flee from Italy. It was completely destroyed by the Austrians during the war, but rebuilt to become, in the twenties, a meeting place for many intellectuals from Trieste, among whom Saba and Svevo. The interior proposes the typical atmosphere of the Viennese Cafés: the engraved wooden counter, the nudes painted on the medallions on the walls, the obsessive repetition of coffee leaves on the decorations, the marble tables with their cast iron legs, the mirrors and the original frescoes.

The most regular patron of the Caffé Pasticceria Pirona was James Joyce, who actually devised his "Ulysses" masterpiece here, while tasting an Austrian pastry and sipping a glass of high quality vintage wine; in this famous pastry shop the visitor can taste sophisticated cakes and specialties from Trieste, and the original furnishing of the time has been preserved.

 

HAPPY EASTER TO EVERYBODY !!!

 

 

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