Getting around

Fly into Venice

Marco Polo, then two hours by train straight into Trieste Centrale. Munich and Vienna work too. Nothing long-haul lands closer.

The local airport (TRS)

Ronchi dei Legionari, 33km up the coast. About a million passengers a year: Ryanair, a Lufthansa feeder, a few Italian cities. Nothing crosses an ocean. If you do use it, it’s better than it sounds: the airport has its own train station joined to the terminal by a raised walkway, and trains run into Trieste Centrale every 35 minutes, taking about half an hour.

By car

Coming from Venice or anywhere west, it’s the A4, off at Sistiana, then nine kilometres down the coast road past Miramare.

By train from Vienna

There’s a direct Railjet, daily, six and a half hours. No changes. Six hundred years of Austria will do that.

From Slovenia and Croatia

Buses run from the city centre. Which tells you where you are.

On foot

Piazza Unità to the Canal Grande is fifteen minutes. The walk along the water at Barcola is why people move here. The catch is the hills. Trieste climbs, and the old town is cobbled. Fine at forty, a consideration at seventy.

City buses (Trieste Trasporti)

Around fifty lines, from main roads down to lanes barely wide enough for one. €1.50 a ticket, €3.35 for a day pass. The app shows where the bus actually is.

Notturno, the night service

Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, starting at 10pm. The transit company, the region and the university pay for it between them, which tells you who’s out late.