The eastern Alps including the Bavarian highlands, Tyrol, Salzkammergut, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Istria : handbook for travellers / by K. Baedeker.

  • Karl Baedeker
Date:
1888
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Credit: The eastern Alps including the Bavarian highlands, Tyrol, Salzkammergut, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Istria : handbook for travellers / by K. Baedeker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    block of buildings, witb sliops and offices on tlie outside, and inter- sected in the interior by a cruciform arcade roofed with glass. This arcade with the adjoining rooms on the ground-floor is used as an Exchange (principal business-hours 12-2 o'clock). Visitors are ad- mitted to the well-stocked Reading Room of the Exchange. Near the Tergesteum lie the two busiest piazzas in the city: the Piazza delta Borsa (PI. C, 4) with the old Exchange, adorned with a Group of Neptune in marble, and a Statue of Emp. Leo- pold /., erected in 1660; and the Piazza Grande (PI. C, 4), with the new Municipio, containing the handsome hall of the provincial diet. In front of the Municipio are the Maria Theresa Fountain, erected in 1751, and a Statue of Emp. Charles VI. The Via del Corso (PI. 0, D, 4), the principal street of Trieste, which leads inland from these piazzas, separates the New Town, with its broad streets and handsome houses, from the Old Town! The streets of the latter, nestling round the castle-hill, are narrow and steep, and in some cases inaccessible to carriages. On the way from the Piazza Grande to the cathedra], to the left, is the Jesuits' Church [S. Maria Maggiore, PI. 5; C, 4], con- taining a large modern fresco by Sante. A few paces to the W., higher up, lies the small Piazzetta di Riccardo, which is said to have been named after Richard Creur de Lion, with the Arco di Riccardo (PI. C, 5), supposed by some to have been a Roman gate- way, but probably part of an old viaduct. Ascending tlie Via della Cattedrale, we soon reach on the right the entrance to the Museo Lapidario (PI. 9; B, 5; custodian opposite. No. 16; fee 30 kr.), a collection of Roman antiquities, exhibited in the open air in an old burial-ground. A small temple here contains the monument of Winckelmann, the famous German archjeoJogist, who was murdered at Trieste in 1768. The loftily-situated Cathedral of S.Giusto( PI. 3 ; D, 5) occupies the site of an ancient Roman temple, of wliicli, by the tower, por- tions of the foundations and columns have been brought to light The present building was formed in the 14th cent, by uniting three contiguous edifices of the 6th cent., an early-Christian basilica a baptistery, and a small Byzantine church with a dome The facade is adorned witli tliroo busts of bishops in bronze. To the right and left of the portal arc six busts in relief from Roman tombs 1 lie interior has been whitewashed. In the altar-recess on the right IS Chnst between SS. Justus and Servatius; in that on the left is Mary between Gabriel and Michael, with the Apostles below (7th cent ). I he capitals are partly antique, partly Romanesque. Beneath a stone slab in front of the church is interred Fouche Duke of Otranto (d. at Trieste in 1.S20), once the powerful minister of police of Napoleon I. The projecting terrace commands a view of part of the town and the soa. In the Piazza Lipsia (PI. B, 5j, which is laid out in pro-