Beautiful and cultured, Trieste is Italy’s most cosmopolitan city. There are still echoes of the glorious mostly to the Austro-Hungarian culture past that made it “the little Vienna on the sea”. It’s characterized by the best of the three worlds: Mediterranean, Central-European and Slavic (even today, a large number of citizens are Slovenians, Serbs and Croats). This city will conquer you with picturesque piazzas, sumptuous palazzo-museums, classic Austrian coffeehouses and cozy seafood restaurants.