Cultural Fault lines: Discovering Trieste & Istria

Date - Wednesday 9 April - Tuesday 15 April 2025

Lecturer - James Hill

Location - Trieste, Italy & Potoroz, Slovenia

Price - £3195

Trieste rests on a cultural and political fault line, a ‘sublime meditation’ of a city which for the writer Jan Morris signified ‘the meaning of nowhere’. Once a Habsburg free port, Trieste’s neighbour Venice was just as influential, the mother city’s architectural timbre carved into the buildings and towns all along the pretty Istrian coast in what is today the Slovene Littoral and Northern Croatia. Our gently paced visit is an opportunity to discover the influence of Austria and Venice in both fascinating Trieste in Italy and the charming Istrian Peninsula in both Slovenia and Croatia.

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