a secret garden in trieste

Last week I met up with Erynn, a lady I was introduced to through Twitter who had recently moved to Trieste. We decided to head to a museum and settled on the Civic Museum of History and Art. We walked up the hill that sits in the centre of town and which was where the ancient city of Tergeste (as it was known to the Romans) started. Some Roman ruins remain and the cathedral is built on the foundations of some ancient buildings. The Museum is just a little bit down from there. It is about the strangest ‘entry’ to a museum that I have ever experienced in that we had to ring a bell to get in, someone met us at the door then we had to go down some stairs, out the ‘back’ door and into another adjoining building. The man who met us at the door had disappeared but re-entered from another door, took our money and then disappeared again to bring us back tickets. As you can imagine we were the only people in the museum – which is quite fun actually.

Despite it’s name it is more history than art, containing sections on Egypt (there was a full mummy!) and Paleolithic man (with pieces that had been found from caves in the area) as well as some Mayan pieces and perhaps pieces from the middle ages. There is no signage in English but it was fun working out what the stuff was.

The best part of the museum though was the garden. It is overgrown, full of seemingly discarded statues which seem to be waiting around for something to happen, benches, balcony metalwork and pieces of masonry. I loved it. I might even be willing to pay the €5 museum entrance fee just to spend all day in the garden.

Surrounding the garden are apartments which look down onto this little oasis. I might be tempted to move if I could get one of the flats that look into the garden.

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