Le Rive

Le Rive represents the seafront in the historic centre of Trieste, along which you can stroll leisurely while keeping your mobile phone at the ready to take pictures of piers, shops, hotels, restaurants and sailboat masts. You walk in open spaces between the sky and the sea, though here and there, inevitably, alongside parked cars or in front of a ferry at berth.

In personal terms, the collective name encompasses from north to south Riva Tre Novembre (from the Grand Canal to Piazza Unità d'Italia with the Molo Audace), Riva del Mandracchio (as far as the Maritime Station), Riva Nazario Sauro (as far as the Fish Market) and Riva Grumula (around the marina, where, beyond the lighthouse, a bathing establishment still exists with spaces for ladies rather than gentlemen).

The Maritime Station is a large passenger terminal from the 1930s, a couple of decades newer than the former Fish Market. The latter, after having served well as a historic fish market, had been converted into an aquarium; it is now a beautiful exhibition space.

Flowerbeds and trees are not intrusive on the waterfront but are not lacking, while the only real green space is the attractive Piazza Venezia, with the 19th-century

Revoltella Museum

building, one block away from the sea.

The streets parallel to the waterfront a little further from the sea have an old town flavour near Piazza Unità, in the Cavana area, and retain something of Trieste but are less typical as you move further away.