James Joyce lived in Trieste for a long number of years and worked as a teacher at the Berlitz school and also tutored writers, translated work, and lectured. It’s believed he wrote Dubliners here, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and perhaps an early draft of Ulysses. The statue featured is close to where he and Nora Barnacle lived in an apartment.
The cathedral is on a hill overlooking the city where there are a number of memorials to the victims of the wars of liberation that took place around Trieste in the twentieth century especially after WWII where there were many disputes about Trieste and Italian Dalmatia that were fiercely fought over by partisans on both sides.
A memorial to the Vergerolla disaster on 18th August 1946 stood out. Pola was the only area of Istria not controlled by Tito’s Yugoslav forces. Hundreds of people – including many children – participated in a swimming competition organized by the sports club Coppa Scarioni, an event that also expressed the city’s Italian spirit. At 2:15 pm, tons of explosive devices suddenly exploded on the beach killing 100 people or more. The names of the known victims are given, as are their ages, so we can all see that the majority of the dead were children.
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