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Beautiful untamed Trieste, aka the Capital of Nowhere

5 January 2019

9:00 AM

5 January 2019

9:00 AM

‘Welcome to the free territory of Trieste,’ reads the sign in the shop window. ‘US and UK come back!’ For me, this is the sort of thing that makes Trieste such a beguiling place. Sixty-four years since those British and American troops departed and handed this disputed seaport back to Italy, it still feels like a no-man’s-land, stranded between the Slav and Latin worlds.

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