Mooning around the Mediterranean

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At this point another large group of school children noisily barrelled their way through our group.

The family portrait gallery.

 

Views from the windows.

 

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Interesting to see just how many places the Hapsburgs ruled.

 

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Back outside and a short amount of time to walk around the gardens.

 

 

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Back on the bus and to the top of the hill in Trieste.

 

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Finally catching up! Lots to catch up with.

 

That prime rib looked delicious to me!

 

Trieste and Ravenna look like a couple of places to add to our list though. The loss of Trieste to Italy after WWII is still a sore subject in Slovenia. And one that I was unaware of, until our visit to Slovenia last year.

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3 hours ago, drron29 said:

At this point another large group of school children noisily barrelled their way through our group.

Of course, as a child, I would never do such a thing 😇

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15 hours ago, jpalbny said:

Finally catching up! Lots to catch up with.

 

That prime rib looked delicious to me!

 

Trieste and Ravenna look like a couple of places to add to our list though. The loss of Trieste to Italy after WWII is still a sore subject in Slovenia. And one that I was unaware of, until our visit to Slovenia last year.

Though in Trieste they are very happy that the NZ troops arrived not long after Tito's forces liberated Trieste. That meant they ended up part of Italy rather than Yugoslavia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_for_Trieste

 

Trieste of course was handed to the Italians after WW1 when they were part of the Allied forces. The borders were finally settled in 1975 with the treaty of Osimo. Quite a few Italians were very upset that Istria was handed to Slovenia and wanted to charge the Italian PM and Foreign Minister with treason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Osimo

 

Interestingly our guide in Trieste was born in Slovenia but emigrated to Trieste to escape communism. Whilst our guide in Piran says the best leader Slovenia has had was Marshal Tito.

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Nearing the top of the hill.

 

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The old castle, Roman ruins and views.

 And on top of a Mountain the Temple of Monte Grisa.

 

 

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We have now come down from thehill and doing a walk around the CBD.