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Lapidario tergestino

Lapidario tergestino
Piazza della Cattedrale, 3
34100 Trieste
+39 040 30 93 62
The sixteenth century Lalio Bastion of San Giusto Castle houses the Lapidario Tergestino, which contains 130 inscriptions and sculptures illustrating the history of Roman Tergeste and its monuments, religious buildings, theatre and necropolis. The last room is dedicated to the mosaics from the luxurious seaside villa discovered in Barcola, dated between the end of the 1st century BC and the 1st half of the 1st century AD.