Day 24 –Padua, Italy to Trieste, Italy – 94 mi.

Today we follow the coastline of the northern Mediterranean. “Trieste flourished as part of Austro-Hungarian Empire during the period 1867–1918 when it was Central Europe's prosperous Mediterranean seaport and its capital of literature and music.
Today, Trieste is a border town. The population is an ethnic mix of the neighboring regions; The dominant local Venetian dialect of Trieste is called Triestine. This dialect and Italian is spoken in the city center whilst Slovenian is spoken in several of the immediate suburbs.”