Duino-Aurisina

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Duino Aurisina
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Duino Aurisina (Italy)
Duino Aurisina
Country Italy
region Friuli Venezia Giulia
Coordinates 45 ° 45 ′  N , 13 ° 40 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  N , 13 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  E
height 144  m slm
surface 45 km²
Residents 8,426 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 187 inhabitants / km²
Factions Vedi elenco
Post Code 34011, 34013, 34019
prefix 040
ISTAT number 032001
Popular name Aurisiniani ( Nabrežinci ), Duinesi ( Devinčani )
Website Duino-Aurisina

Duino-Aurisina ( Slovenian Devin-Nabrežina , German Thübein-Nabreschin or Tybein ) is a municipality with 8,426 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) on the Adriatic coast in northeast Italy in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region . In the Middle Ages, until 1399, the Duino fiefdom and the castle of the same name on the coast were the ancestral seat of the Lords of Duino ; after the lords of Duino went out, both were passed on to their relatives, the lords of Walsee . Duino was a well-known port and seaside resort in the last decades of the Danube Monarchy.

New castle in Duino
Duino Castle, on the right the rocks with the Rilkeweg to Sistiana
View from the Rilkeweg to the steep coast of Sistiana

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The municipality extends over an area of ​​45 km². It consists of the localities Ceroglie-Cerovlje, Duino-Devin, Malchina-Mavhinje, Medeazza-Medjevas, Precenico-Prečnik, Prepotto-Praprot, San Pelagio-Šempolaj, San Giovanni di Duino-Štivan, Sistiana-Sesljan , Slivia-Slivno, Ternova Piccola-Trnovca, Villaggio del Pescatore-Ribiško naselje, Visogliano-Vižovlje, Aurisina S. Croce-Nabrežina Križ, Aurisina Cave-Nabrežina Kamnolomi, Aurisina Stazione-Nabrežina Postaja and Aurisina Centro-Nabrežina.

Neighboring municipalities are Doberdò del Lago , Monfalcone , Sgonico-Zgonik and Trieste .

Attractions

Duino Castle
Peninsula near Duino Castle

Churches

There are several churches in Duino, some of which are built on late antique foundations. In addition, the place has several castles and castle-like palaces .

Duino Castle

The most famous complex, the New Palace , which is owned and inhabited by the Karl Prinz von Thurn und Taxis family today, shows, among other things, the famous Palladian staircase . Some halls of the castle have now been opened to the public. You can visit a pianoforte , on which Franz Liszt made music during his stay here, and the castle park, with a wonderful view of the Gulf of Trieste .

The Counts of Chambord, Empress Sisi and Emperor Franz Josef I , Archduke Maximilian with Charlotte , Eleonora Duse , Johann Strauss , Gabriele D'Annunzio , Paul Valéry , Mark Twain , Victor Hugo and Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria often attended the castle Stay. The physicist Ludwig Boltzmann also died in Duino in 1906 .

The castle came through Countess Theresa Maria von Thurn-Hofer and Valsassina († 1893), whose family had owned it since the 16th century, to their daughter Marie Princess zu Hohenlohe , married Princess von Thurn and Taxis , and the patron of Rainer Maria Rilkes . Today Duino belongs to her descendant Prince Carlo della Torre e Tasso (Thurn und Taxis), Duca di Duino.

Rilke's Duinese Elegies are named after Duino Castle, some of which were created here. The Rilke trail along the rocks between Sistiana and Duino reminds of the poet , from which there is a panoramic view of the bay of Sistiana, the Gulf of Trieste and the castle.

The government of Zone A of the Free State of Trieste (1947/1954) had its seat in Duino Castle. The United World College of the Adriatic, founded in 1982 by UNESCO , is also located here .

Mithraeum

Halfway between Aurisina and San Giovanni di Duino is a 1965 discovered Mithraeum in a natural cave that can be visited on some days.

nature

  • Sistiana : The neighboring town of Sistiana is well known for its beautiful bay and beach.
  • Quarries: There are several quarries in Aurisina, including one from Roman times ( Cava romana ), in which so-called karst marbles are extracted. Limestone from this mining area was used for buildings in Aquileia , along with sandstone from the area around Muggia and Istrian limestone .

The Salcanobrücke , a railway bridge, was also built from such limestone in 1905.

Personalities

People related to the city:

  • Alojz Rebula (1924-2018), Slovenian writer
  • Heinz Seeber (1930–1998), German painter, painted a lot in the Duino area from 1975 onwards
  • Hans Raimund (* 1945), Austrian writer, lived in Duino from 1984 to 1997
  • Günther Schatzdorfer (1952–2011), Austrian writer and painter
  • Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906), Austrian physicist and philosopher, ended his life in Duino by suicide

Web links

Commons : Duino-Aurisina  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ↑ http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/mithras/display.php?page=supp_Italy_Duino_Mithraeum
  3. ↑ Franco Cucchi, Santo Gerdol include: The natural stone from the Carso . Camera di Commercio Industria Artigianato e Agricoltura, Triest 1989, pp. 17-18.
  4. ↑ www.bmlv.gv.at