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My 'Secret' Trieste

Lonely Planet, the largest travel guidebook publisher in the world, recently published a list of “10 of the world’s unsung places” and Trieste, in Friuli Venezia Giulia...

Lonely Planet, the largest travel guidebook publisher in the world, recently published a list of “10 of the world’s unsung places”...

rieste has a long association with coffee drinking and production. During the first World War, Hungarian Francesco Illy arrived in Trieste and in 1933 formed his company, the now world famous Illy Coffee, still based in Trieste and run by the Illy family....

Venzone is the only medieval walled city in Friuli Venezia Giulia and so it stands to reason that during the annual pumpkin festival the whole town takes the opportunity to don period dress creating a re-enactment of life in medieval times.

Since 1969 the second Sunday of October has been the time of year when sailors of all levels ranging from keen amateurs to professional racing teams...

30 of the best wineries in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia contributed to fill the 510 liter bottle.

Is your local football stadium having a hard time filling its seats in this difficult economic period? Perhaps the owners could copy this idea from Triestina team owner, Stefano Fantinel.....

An unemployed man from Friuli-Venezia Giulia placed an advertisement on the internet offering one of his kidneys in exchange for €100,000 or a job. The advertisement was immediately removed by the Postal and Communications Police, who initially thought it was a joke....

A crop of genetically modified maize in Vivaro [Friuli- Venezia Giulia] was destroyed by “no global” protestors on Monday, reports ANSA.

Economic Development Councillor Paolo Rovis is spearheading an “antipipi” campaign after receiving numerous complaints from shopkeepers who are tired of cleaning up dog urine on their doors and windows every morning.