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Trieste (, AFI: ; Triéste in Trieste dialect; Triest in German and Friulian; Trst in Slovenia) is an Italian municipality of inhabitants, capital of the Italian region under special statute Friuli-Venezia Giulia, overlooking the homonymous gulf in the northernmost part of the Upper Adriatic, between the Italian peninsula and Istria, a few kilometers from the border with Slovenia, in the historical-geographic region of Venice Giulia, of which is the most populous city.

In its history, Trieste was imperial city and capital before the Austrian coast, then the province of Trieste.

For centuries it has been a bridge between central and southern Europe, mixing Mediterranean, mythical and Slavic characters and is the most populated and densely populated municipality in the region. The port of Trieste since 2016 is the Italian port with the greatest traffic goods and is one of the most important in southern Europe.

Physical geography

Territory

Trieste, overlooking the homonymous gulf in the northernmost part of Upper Adriatic, is located between the Italian peninsula and Istria, a few kilometers from the border with Slovenia in the historical region of Venice Giulia.

The city of Trieste is mainly occupied by a hilly slope that grows at altitude up to mountainous soil even in the neighboring areas. Geologically we can divide the territory into two areas. The first, includes the karst plateau, called Carso, known for its caves and its dolines, which abruptly descends towards the sea with an imposing embellishment. The highest point of the municipal territory reaches 674 meters (Monte Cocusso). The second geological zone includes the city center and a large part of the most populous suburbs, which rests on the so-called "Flysch of Trieste".

The municipality of Trieste is divided into various climatic zones, depending on the distance of the area from the sea and its altitude. Characteristic of this area is the abundance of red soil, soil with an accentuated presence of red clay fraction deriving from the erosion of limestone, particularly suitable for the cultivation of wine grapes.

Hydrography

In the surroundings of the city of Trieste there are numerous water courses, some important - river Timavo, stream Rosandra, rio Ospo - and others less well known but not least relevant from the hydrogeological, historical and naturalistic point of view. Many of them flow into the underground of the Jewish city covered by the road.

The springs of these minor courses, which generally have lengths of a few kilometers (in some cases, even less), are due to the exit of the meteoric waters that precipitate on the karst plateau. Free a time to flow outdoors, they were channeled since the city developed urbanly, an event that began in the second half of the eighteenth century, in special pipelines. Still today these waterways run the underground