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Visogliano
The accomodation is located at Visogliano, a little village near Sistiana, Italy. The village is very quite, but at 2 minutes of car, at Sistiana, you will find at your disposal supermarkets, banks, the post office, a pharmacy, a news-stand, a tobacco shop, coffee shops, restaurants and pizzerias. At 5 minutes of car you will find a big supermarket, CONAD SUPERSTORE.
At 100 metres from the apartment there is a train station (we recommend to control the timetables!), which can you connect to the cities of Trieste (20 minutes), Gorizia (30 minutes), Udine (1 hour) and Venice (2 hours). You can reach also directly the Trieste Airport (30 minutes). At 5 minutes you can take the A4 motorway.
the Visogliano train station
The sea and Portopiccolo
Do you want to have some fun? There aren't any problems, you have the sea! At 5 minutes of car or 15 minutes on foot, you can reach the bathing estabilishments of Caravella and Portopiccolo.
Next to them you can find, simply, a diamond of the sea: Portopiccolo. This is a little village, situated not far away from Visogliano, which was finished in 2015. In Portopiccolo you will have a lot of fun in the 3600 m2 wellness centre and at the beach club.
Portopiccolo
Portopiccolo
The sea and Portopiccolo
Do you want to have some fun? There aren't any problems, you have the sea! At 5 minutes of car or 15 minutes on foot, you can reach the bathing estabilishments of Caravella and Portopiccolo.
Next to them you can find, simply, a diamond of the sea: Portopiccolo. This is a little village, situated not far away from Visogliano, which was finished in 2015. In Portopiccolo you will have a lot of fun in the 3600 m2 wellness centre and at the beach club.
Castles from Duino to San Giusto through Miramare
The village of Duino is mostly famous for its castle. The building started in 1389 and it became after the residence for the Princes of the House of Thurn und Taxis. Only 15 minutes towards Trieste there's the Miramare Castle. It was built by order of the Austrian archduxe Ferdinand Maximilian in 1856. The castle's grounds include an extensive cliff and seashore park of 54 acres designed by the archduke. The grounds were completely re-landscaped to feature numerous tropical species of trees and plants. Finally, we arrive to San Giusto. The castle was build in 1469 for a curious reason: it was a punishment of the Emperor Frederick III to the Trieste inhabitants.
Trieste
Miramare Castle
Canal Grande, Trieste
Trieste
A place where East meets the West. That is the city of Trieste. From more than 500 years Eastern cultures are mixed with the Western ones.
Let's leave this philosophising alone! Trieste is an amazing city, and everything in it's fantastic! You can take the "capo in bi", the typical coffee of Trieste, you can visit the diverse museums, the antique Roman theatre, the city cathedral of San Giusto.
There are a lot of other things to do: you can take a walk through the little streets and city parks, you can listen to a concert, watch a play in the city theatres, in a short you won't be bored.
Caves
The Karstic caves are also something that is very typical for that territory.
The nearest is the "Grotta gigante", the giant cave. It is 107 metres high, 65 metres wide and 130 metres long, and it permitted to it that entered into the Guinness World Records book as the largest turistic cavity in the world.
The Postojna cave is being visited from exactly 200 years. Yeah, from 1818 tourists from all over the world visit the cave. But it was first discovered in 1213. Today it remains the only cave in the world which you can visit by train.
There are about 3500 little caves on the Karst, but there is, or better are, some other famous, the Škocjan Caves. They are the only caves in Europe to be part of the UNESCO Workd Heritage site.
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Postojna cave
Osmizas
You are hungry, do you want a glass of good wine? The best idea is an osmiza! The osmizas are something tipically Karstic. They are a place where local farmers sell their wine and products such as cheese, ham, salami etc.
Some historians claim that it was present also in the period of Charlemagne, but the osmiza as it is known today comes from the period of the Holy Roman Empire when the emperor Joseph II issued a decree, which allowed farmers to sell bulk wine produced at home for a period of eight days.
