Trieste is a Babel of history and culture, a city where dozens of languages ​​are spoken and where the most diverse traditions, nationalities and religions on even opposite positions, meet and have (almost) always met to collaborate and enrich themselves with each other.

Trieste is Italian, with traditions and uses with strong influences from the Slovenian inland and from the sea since the Republic of Venice and from the great Greek merchants and shipowners.

Trieste is a city with a strong link with Austria and sees Maria Teresa as one of its major political and administrative figures.

Trieste is a city with churches for all religions, which has welcomed and valued all beliefs. But also a city with a strong secular and scientific vocation. Trieste is a city of literature, patriotism and heroic mountaineering.

Running in Trieste means breathing in this atmosphere, which the poet Rilke, from the Duino cliffs, summarizes in the simple phrase: “Being here is wonderful”, or better to use his words, “Hiersein Ist Herrlich”, or in Slovenian “Biti tu je čudovito ”and in English language of science and international“ Being here is Glorious ”.