16.9.2024, Sistiana, Rilke trail & Duino Cliffs Nature Reserve – Duino castle – Miramare castle

Sistiana: Rilke trail, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rilke_trail: … Italian: Sentiero Rilke … providing a scenic view of the Gulf of Trieste … connects the villages of Duino and Sistiana … For a long time the trail was abandoned but in 1987 it was restored by the Province of Trieste …

Sistiana: Duino Cliffs Regional Nature Reserve, Information plate: „… includes a steep limestone cliff, a sea band and a narrow band of the Carso plateau … Central European, Illyrian-Balkan and Mediterranean animal and plant species live here … The most important plant of the Reserve is Centaurea kartschiana. The Duino Cliffs are its only world location … The white limestone rock is the main feature of the Reserve… Along the cliff …, running alongside the remains of military emplacements, winds the Rilke path …

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Duino castle, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duino_Castle: … a fourteenth-century fortification located in the village of Duino, … on the cliffs overlooking the Gulf of Trieste … The ruins of an older castle built in the eleventh century by the Patriarch of Aquileia are located on the grounds … Thurn und Taxis … Alexander and Marie supported artists and writers, including Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. While a guest of Princess Marie in … 1912, Rilke began to write his Duino Elegies, a collection of ten … philosophical and mystical poems …

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Miramare castle, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miramare_Castle:  … a 19th-century castle direct on the Gulf of Trieste … It was built from 1856 to 1860 for Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian and his wife, Charlotte of Belgium, later Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico and Empress Carlota of Mexico … The castle’s grounds include an extensive cliff and seashore park … The grounds were completely re-landscaped to feature numerous tropical species of trees and plants …