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The Castle of San Giusto is located on the hill of the same name in Trieste. The Castle is a fortress - museum originally from the fifteenth century and used as a civic museum in the 2000s. Of great interest is the collection exhibited inside the fortress, consisting mostly of sculptures, inscriptions, bas-reliefs and fragments of architecture from the Roman era. The stone finds come from the Capitoline area, from sacred buildings, from the Theater and from the necropolis of ancient Trieste. Among the most important we find the base of the equestrian monument of the fellow citizen Lucio Fabio Severo, senator of Rome, and the statues of Venus, Minerva, Apollo, Bacchus and Aesculapius. From the entrance you can admire some of the military banners, the coats of arms of the patrician families of the city. The ancient original ruins of the castle are part of the exhibition, such as the ancient shooting positions, the bell, the crossbows and the weapons. The symbol of the fortress is the so-called "Melone", the acroterion originally located on top of the bell tower of San Giusto. The exhibition also hosts the original automata called Micheze and Jacheze from the bell tower of the Municipality of Trieste, exhibited in the courtyard of the castle of San Giusto. The Castle hosts cultural events and medieval re-enactments inspired by the history of the Castle.

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Address

Piazza della Cattedrale, 3
34131 Trieste

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