Ecumenical citizens of a city built to a lost purpose…

trieste-canal

Dedicated to Karolina and Zois…

…This gives one the feeling that local people, rooted in Trieste, still run the city, in a composed way that they no longer do in most cities of the Western world… There are still prominent citizens whose lives overlap the several spheres, economic and artistic, social and political. It is a tradition here…  (for instance) in the 1760s the Count von Koenigsbrunn was not only Trieste’s chief of police, but also its theatre director…

“Trieste and the meaning of Nowhere”

Jan Morris

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