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Piazza Venezia (Trieste)

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Piazza Venezia, Trieste
Piazza Venezia, Trieste

Piazza Venezia (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpjattsa veˈnɛttsja], Venice Square) is one of the best known squares of Trieste, the capital of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy. The square has a view over the Adriatic to the Alps with the Dolomite Mountains Civetta, Monte Pelmo and Antelao. The square is known for its central monument and its prominent buildings and their features: the Revoltella Palace designed by Friedrich Hitzig, with its furnishings and art collection, today including over 350 pieces, the historic Mizzan pharmacy, still conserving the original furnishing, with carved boiserie and fire-worked stained glass windows with mythological images, and the monument of Maximilian I of Mexico, the work of sculptor Johannes Schilling. The square is connected to via Torino, often credited as the center of Trieste's nightlife.

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Piazza Venezia (Trieste)
Piazza Venezia, Trieste Città Nuova-Barriera Nuova-San Vito-Città Vecchia

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Piazza Venezia
34123 Trieste, Città Nuova-Barriera Nuova-San Vito-Città Vecchia
Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
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Piazza Unità d'Italia
Piazza Unità d'Italia

Piazza Unità d'Italia (English: Unity of Italy Square) is the main square in Trieste, a seaport city in northeast Italy. Located at the foot of the hill with the castle of San Giusto, the square faces the Adriatic Sea. It is often said to be Europe's largest square located next to the sea. The square was built during the period when Trieste was the most important seaport of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and includes the city's municipal buildings and other important palaces. Before 1919 it was known as Piazza Grande, or Great Square. The local Slovenes still refer to it as Veliki trg (Great Square), both in daily speech and in the media. In the last decade, the term Trg zedinjenja (Unity Square) or Trg zedinjenja Italije (Unity of Italy Square) has also become popular, especially in official documents.The square itself has occasionally been used as a concert venue, with Green Day using the square as a venue for a show on their 99 Revolutions Tour in 2013. The attendance was of 12,000 people. In 2016, it was used by heavy metal band Iron Maiden as a concert venue (it was the third of three Italian dates): the concert was sold out with over 15,000 fans.The square is also occasionally used for visits of foreign heads of state and meetings. In November 2013 President of Russia Vladimir Putin met Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta there for bilateral talks. In July 2017 a trilateral meeting attended by Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron, and Paolo Gentiloni was held there, as well as the fourth Western Balkans Summit.