Day 5, Grignano to Trieste

View from Hotel Riviera and Maximilian’s of Grignano

Aboard the Grignano Mare ferry to Trieste

Turned up fortuitously in time for the ferry (the timetable published on the Net showed a later departure). Weather, perfect.

Approaching Trieste, 20-minute journey there

Ionic pillars outside the church of St Anthony Thaumaturgist (the magician), looking down the Grand Canal to the Adriatic

St Anthony Thaunaturgist once turned a frog into a chicken and a chicken into a frog simply to confuse heretics. He also preached to the fish because no one else was listening to him; the shoal assembled all the better to listen.

Church of Saint Anthony Thaumaturgist

St Anthony Thaumaturgist from the Grand Canal (#nofilter)

Museo Teatro, Trieste, by the Grand Canal

Varieties of Athentine beef (no, being veggies, we can’t tell you what it tasted like but had a strong roasted beef aroma)

Perhaps a venue for Hugo to holiday next year; although cocktails were also available…

The Museum of Far Eastern Art is fine and free 4-storey collection originating from when Trieste was the main seaport of the Hapsburg Empire with numerous bequests and donations from China and Japan. It includes 12th century blue and white porcelain and a Hokusai display.

Whilst wandering the narrow medieval alleyways we found an entry to a chapel up the stairs of a sidestreet to the Mother Chapel of Reconciliation. A fascinating discovery including the the medieval face of the Sorrowful surrounded by the newly commissioned paintings in the style of old masters by a Russian artist Oleg Supereco born in 1974.

The chapel commemorates the prayers of Bishop Antonio Santin on April 30, 1945, to the Holy Mother to save the city of Trieste from the destructive wrath of the withdrawing Nazi occupant army. The city was demonstrably saved.