Learn about the history of the Jewish community in Trieste, the town called “the gate of Zion”!
Starting from Piazza Unità d'Italia, the largest seafront square in Europe, the “living room” of the dwellers, you will reach the formerly Jewish Ghetto, now teeming with antique shops. Your private highly specialized guide will continue your visit to the Carlo and Vera Wagner Museum, which houses one of the most remarkable collections of the Jewish civilization in all Italy. Then with a stroll along the hearth of the town, many important landmarks will surprise you: the Antique Bookshop of the famous poet Umberto Saba, the birth house of the author, Italo Svevo, and finally the monumental building of the Trieste Synagogue. The interior decoration recalls the religious symbols of the Jews and tells about the rich develop that the Jewish Community of Trieste had at the end of the XIX century a flourish age for the Town of the Habsburg Port.
 
On demand, you may also extend the visit to the Jewish Cemetery, with the tombs of the most important Jewish families in Trieste and to the Risiera of San Sabba, the only Nazi death camp in Italy.