Today I allow myself only a short slow tour: a culture event on Social and Language awaits me. On this winter day of February, at 8:00 am, I note an orderly and busy movement at the Railway Station. Good coffee is a stimulus, but I promise myself one in a historic cafe in the centre. I walk by the sea and am drawn by the façade of the church of S. Antonio Nuovo or Taumaturgo on the Grand Canal, still sleepy in the grey light of the hour. This neoclassical building was designed by Pietro Nobile in 1840.

I am lucky not to have too many passers by in the frame, and so take a shot: every time the scenery here gives a different memory or sensation. Rich in history and art, the church stands on columns with a large dome. Next to it, there are buildings in Venetian style. It is also worth see at sunset.

It looks as though there ought to be gondolas in this shot. If I had another hour to spare, I could visit the nearby Serbian Orthodox church of S. Spiridione and the Greek Orthodox Church of San Nicolò. For centuries, Trieste was a crossroads of peoples and races from different places and with different religions.

A separate itinerary should be reserved for Jewish Trieste, including a walk among the ancient tombs of the most important Jewish families wrapped in vegetation but still revealing names such as Morpurgo de Nilma or dei Parenti.

Still on foot, I come to via S. Nicolò, where I see the windows of the bookshop once run by Umberto Saba. I have chosen the elegant Caffè degli Specchi for my last pause: I breathe in the aromas even though at this hour the customers are busily coming and going.

Piazza Unità d'Italia is scenic: it features, like St. Mark’s Square in Venice, cafes on the one side and the other. I head to the Molo Audace, the jetty jutting into the sea opposite the square, but you should also stop at the INFOPOINT PROMOTURISMOFVG in via dell’Orologio 1 (on the corner of Piazza Unità d'Italia), to ask for information about the destinations you might find most interesting.