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The Secrets of the Karst

Ten stories about the places the Corsa della Bora goes through: what is under your feet, and what the night hides. One every Wednesday, from 2 September to 4 November.

  1. PortoPiccolo, from quarry to village
    From quarry to seaside village: how PortoPiccolo came to be, and why all seven Corsa della Bora races finish there.
  2. Val Rosandra: the road of water and salt
    A Roman aqueduct, smuggled salt, a fifteenth-century walled refuge and two inscriptions from 1819: the Corsa della Bora night route through Val Rosandra.
  3. The Mitreo of Duino, the only one in Europe inside a cave
    Oil lamps, reliefs, 98 coins and an altar: Europe's only mithraeum inside a natural cave, above Duino on the CAI 001a path.
  4. Monte Ermada, the mountain that held through twelve battles
    Armoured observation posts and natural caverns sheltering hundreds of men: why the Great War front never moved beyond Monte Ermada.
  5. The climb that belonged to the women of Contovello
    Two hundred metres of climbing between Barcola and Contovello: the Ribiška pot stairway, which women climbed every morning with baskets of fish on their heads.