45.827513.4722221 Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport (TRS  ^IATA) (33 km (21 mi) north of the city centre).  

A regional airport hosting flights from various Italian and European cities. The airport is just off the A4 Trieste-Venice motorway (Redipuglia exit). Long and short-stay car parks are available. Transport options include:

• Bus number 51, run by APT, runs to the airport from Trieste's bus station (next to the railway station). Weekdays buses leave at 5 minutes and 35 minutes past the hour. On Sundays the service is every 1 to 2 hours. The bus takes about 55 minutes. Tickets can be purchased at city bus/coach stations or at the airport: in the Arrivals Hall, with an automatic machine for self-ticketing and at the Post Office.
• ''Trieste Airport'' Railway Station is in front of the airport. The station is on the Trieste-Venice railway line, 25 minutes ride from Trieste. Tickets can be purchased at the airport railway station or online.
• Taxis are available outside the Arrivals Hall from 08:00 to 00:00. Taxi fare to Trieste is around €70 and takes 30-35 minutes.

Nearest major airports are Venice Marco Polo & Venice Treviso. From either airport, take the Fly Bus - express service to Mestre railway station (€10) and get on the regional train from Mestre railway station to Trieste Central Station (2 hours, €14-29).

Other nearby airports (less than 2 hours from Trieste by private or public transport) include Ljubljana (Slovenia), and Pula & Rijeka (both in Croatia). The more adventurous and leisurely travelers can also use Zagreb Airport (Croatia), Klagenfurt (Austria), and Verona (Italy), all of which can be reached by car.

Local routes include Udine, Grado and San Candido/Innichen.

At the 45.6570813.7712 Trieste coach station, bus and coach connections to several European countries, including Slovenia (Izola - Isola, Koper - Capodistria, Ljubljana, Piran - Pirano, Portorož - Portorose, Postojna - Postumia, Sežana - Sesana), Croatia (Dubrovnik, Poreč - Parenzo, Pula - Pola, Opatija - Abbazia, Rijeka - Fiume, Rovinj - Rovigno, Split - Spalato, Zadar - Zara) and Serbia (Belgrade - Belgrado) are available. Connections to Germany and Austria are available via Flixbus.

A4 Venice-Trieste, toll-gate Monfalcone-Lisert, exit point "Sistiana" (SS 14 "Costiera"). The town is 24 km from the motorway.

SS 202 Triestina: Motorway A4, toll-gate Lisert, Carso Plateau, Opicina, Padriciano, Trieste

SS 15 Via Flavia: Koper (Slovenia) - Rabuiese border

SS 58, Carniola highway: Ljubljana (Slovenia) - Fernetti border - Opicina, where the highway joins to SS 202, Trieste

45.6574713.7721053 Trieste Centrale railway station. There's a left luggage office open from 8-18h. One piece is €5. (updated Jan 2019)

The main railway station in Trieste is Trieste Centrale, located around 15 minutes by foot from Piazza Unita d'Italia.

Trieste Centrale is connected, through regional trains, to Venice (2 per hour, €16-21), Udine (1 to 3 per hour, €9-10), Ljubljana (2 per day) with some daily connections to Carnia and Tarvisio as well.

Intercity trains guarantees three daily connections to Rome and various cities of central Italy like Florence, Arezzo, Orte and Orvieto.

High speed service is guaranteed with daily Freccia Rossa services to: Rome (1 per day), Turin (1 per day) Milan (4 per day); and a Italo service that departs at 08:00 towards Florence, Rome and Naples.

ÖBB serves Trieste Centrale with a daily connection to Ljubljana, Graz and Wien.

The other railway stations in the municipality of Trieste are Trieste Miramare (that serve the Miramare Castle) and Villa Opicina where several regional services to Ljubljana departs daily.

Like most of Europe, a stroll through the town to admire its ancient architecture is a very popular activity. You get to travel at your own pace and even get some coffee along the way. Trieste is not particularly big and if you do not have luggage with you there is no need to take a bus.

Trieste has a network of buses running on a strict schedule. This can often be checked on the web. Routes are very frequent through the day but rarer after 21:00 in the evening, on Sundays and holidays.

On Wednesday (not during summer), Fridays and Saturdays between 22:00 and 04:00 a "bus on demand" service is active for 2€ per person per route which can be booked through the "TS on Demand" app.

Strikes occasionally affect buses but Trieste is a small city and most places of interest can easily be reached on foot.

Single tickets cost €1.45 each (2024), and can be bought from tobacconists and from machines which are found at some of the busier bus stops. Tickets are valid for 60 minutes (240 minutes during Sunday and holidays) and allow unlimited change of routes within that time. Daily tickets for unlimited trips, cost €3.10 and are valid until midnight. Once on board, the tickets must be validated using the machines which stamp the time of first use. A fine for not having a validated ticket is €70 and there are often inspections on lines 6 and 36 during summer and on lines 1, 9, 10, 20, 21 during all year.

• 45.670513.78911 Trieste–Opicina tramway. The bus system includes the #2 tram to Opicina, which is regarded as an attraction itself. Since 2016 the tram has been out of service due to an accident. Restoration work to allow an eventual reopening is underway, but faces multiple delays and there is yet no date of resume as at 2024. (updated Dec 2018)

For a small extra fee (€2-4) you can get unlimited bus and tram service with your FVG Card, which can be purchased at the Trieste tourist office in Piazza Unita d'Italia.

• 45.6482713.767491 Città Vecchia (Old Town). Trieste boasts an extensive old town: there are many very narrow and crooked streets with typical medieval houses. Nearly the entire area is closed to traffic. 
• 45.6502113.767592 The Austrian Quarter. Half of the city was built under Austrian-Hungarian dominion, so there are a lot of palaces that resemble Vienna. An iconic place of this quarter is the majestic Piazza Unità (Unity Square), which is Europe's largest sea-front square. The most present architecture styles are Neoclassical, Art Nouveau, Eclectic, and Baroque. 

• 45.6468613.772863 San Giusto - Cathedral and Castle. A walk on the castle ramparts and bastions gives a complete panorama of the city of Trieste, its hills and the sea. 

• Museum
• Capitoline Temple
• Church of San Giovanni
• San Michele al Carnale
• WWI Altar
• Roman forum and civic building
• Castle of San Giusto
• Park of Remembrance World War I commemorative park,
• Lapidary Garden. Contains Roman and Medieval relics discovered in Trieste. In it stands a Cenotaph to the archaeologist Johann Winckelmann, father of neoclassicism, who died in Trieste in 1769.

• 45.7025313.712454 Miramare Castle. This historic 19th-century castle is a 20-minute trip from Piazza Oberdan on the #6 bus. 

• Maximilian's Chambers and those of his consort, Carlota of Belgium; the guest rooms; the information room telling the history of the Castle and the Park's construction.
• Duke Amadeo of Aosta's apartment with furnishings from the 1930s in the Rationalist style.
• Throne Room
• The park offers the public a chance for an interesting stroll among botanical species and an important collection of sculptures dotted along its numerous paths.
• The Stables, a building which was restored and is now used for temporary exhibitions;
• The Old Greenhouses
• Little Castle containing the seat of the Direction of the Natural Marine Reserve of Miramare and a small number of aquariums

• 45.649213.77175 The Roman Theatre. Trieste or Tergeste, which probably dates back to the prehistoric period, was enclosed by walls built in 33-32 BC on Emperor Octavius’s orders. The city developed greatly during the 1st and 2nd century AD. The Roman Theatre lies at the foot of the San Giusto hill, and faces the sea. The construction partially exploits the gentle slope of the hill, and most of the construction work is in stone. The topmost portion of the amphitheatre steps and the stage were presumably made of wood. The statues that adorned the theatre (which was brought to light in the 1930s) are now preserved at the Town Museum. Three inscriptions from the Trajan period mention a certain Q. Petronius Modestus, a person who was closely connected with the development of the theatre, which was erected during the second half of the 1st century. 
• 45.67556613.7570476 Il Faro della Vittoria (Victory Lighthouse). The Lighthouse of the Victory, an impressive work of the Triestine architect Arduino Berlam (1880-1946) and of the sculptor Giovanni Mayer (1863-1943), has two important functions. Besides lighting the gulf of Trieste, in order to help navigation, it also serves as a commemorative monument dedicated to the fallen of the First World War. The lighthouse is topped by an embossed copper statue of Victory sculpted by Giovanni Mayer. Under this statue is affixed the anchor of the torpedo-boat Audace (the first Italian ship that entered the port of Trieste on November 3, 1918).  
• 45.64777113.768847 Arco di Riccardo. An Augustan gate built in the Roman walls in 33 AD. It stands in Piazzetta Barbacan, in the narrow streets of the old town. 
• 45.6523313.771658 Canal Grande. Trieste's beautiful grand canal, just up the street from Piazza Unità. Step onto the bridge to pose with a bronze statue of James Joyce, one of Trieste's many iconic statues that walk the streets instead of standing on pedestals. 

• 45.6471213.763349 Museo Revoltella, Via Diaz 27. This museum was donated to the city in 1869 by Baron Pasquale Revoltella, a great patron of the arts who liked to surround himself with precious and avant-garde works. In a building restored and extended by architect Carlo Scarpa, the museum today houses one of Italy’s finest collections of 19th-century, modern and contemporary art..  
• 45.6460113.7717910 ^{[dead link]} Museo di Storia, Arte e Orto Lapidario (Museum of History and Art and Lapidary Garden), Piazza della Cattedrale, 1 Trieste. Tu-Su 09:00-18:00. Archaeological, historical and art collections. Prehistoric and protohuman findings of local origin; Roman and medieval sculptures and epigraphs. Egyptian, Greek, Roman and pre-Roman antiques. Numismatic collection. Photograph and book libraries. €5, €3 reduced. 
• 45.6401113.8004311 Museo di Storia Naturale. Zoological, botanical, geological, palaeontological and mineralogical collections. Vivarium. Specialised scientific library..  
• 45.6491913.7747512 Museo della Comunità Ebraica di Trieste "Carlo e Vera Wagner" ("Carlo e Vera Wagner" Museum of the Jewish Community of Trieste). Collection of ritual art of the Jewish community of Trieste, mainly silverware and fabrics...  
• 45.6207213.7892513 Museo della Risiera di San Sabba (Risiera di San Sabba Museum). A national monument - a testimonial of the only Nazi extermination camp in Italy..  
• 45.6463813.7552314 Railway Museum Trieste Campo Marzio. Closed since July 18, 2017 for restoration.. Housed in the former railhouse, the museum features drawings, models and fullsized train engines and railcars as well as horse-drawn trams from Trieste's past. (updated Jan 2019)
• 45.6462613.7632315 Museo Sartorio, Largo Papa Giovanni XXIII, 1, ☏ +39 040 301479. Tu-Su 10:00-18:00. Art collections donated to the city by the Sartorio family. Paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries; sculptures; sketches by Giambattista Tiepolo. Full: €6; reduced: €4. 
• 45.644313.7609516 Museo della Bora, Via Belpoggio, 9, museobora@iol.it. Open by email reservation. A small museum dedicated to Bora and wind in Trieste. By donation. (updated Jul 2023)

• 45.70991913.76457217 Grotta Gigante (15 km by city bus #42. Two wide parking lots are available on the outside.). This giant cave claims to be the biggest tourist cave in the world (since 1997 in the Guinness Book of Records). The enormous hall is 107 m high, 280 m long and 65 m wide. The multi-lingual guided tour takes about 45 minutes. You can also visit the Museum of Speleology is near the cave and besides the various speleological, geological and paleontological finds it also includes some valuable archeological pieces and a poster collection of the cave. Reservation in advance is compulsory for visit. (updated Oct 2024)

• 45.6514913.7733418 Saint Spyridon Church (Serbian Orthodox Church of St. Spyridon), 9, Via San Spiridione. Tu-Sa 09:00-12:00, 17:00-20:00; F 09:00-12:00. 
• 45.65317513.78033619 Synagogue of Trieste, ☏ +39 040 6726736. Su 10:00-12:00; Th 15:30-17:30. It's one of the largest in Europe, and was built in 1912. Guided tours only.  

• 45.65191613.77398111 Al Barattolo, Piazza S. Antonio Nuovo 2. Considering that this restaurant is right at the Grand Canale, it has very moderate prices (and of course a beautiful view). (updated Aug 2022)
• 45.64733413.76727812 ^{[dead link]} Antica Trattoria Le Barettine (Le Barettine), Via del Bastione, 3, ☏ +39 040 3229528, +39 348 4780518 (Mobile), debaseggiofabri@libero.it. M Tu 19:30-23:00; Th-Su 12:30-15:00, 19:30-23:00. Italian seafood restaurant, huge wine collection, in Trieste's historical city center. €30-50 (April 2014). (updated Aug 2022)
• 45.64676913.76436613 Buffet da Siora Rosa, Piazza Hortis 3, ☏ +39 040 301460. Tu-Sa 08:00-21:30. One of Trieste's oldest family-owned restaurants operating since before World War II, serving typical Triestine cuisine. Particularly famous for their proscuitto cotto: cooked ham served with piquant mustard and horseradish. €10-25 per person (June 2014). (updated Aug 2022)
• In the first little alley to the left of the Piazza Unità d'Italia, leading towards the hill, there are several small pasta restaurants and bistros.

• 45.64858713.76525314 Ristorante Al Bagatto, Via Luigi Cadorna, 7. (updated Aug 2022)
• 45.64699113.76352215 Celestino, Via Armando Diaz, 24. (updated Aug 2022)

Coffee has been an important part of Trieste since the 1700s. Some of the most famous caffè, known as much for their famous patrons as their food and drink, include:

• Caffè Tommaseo, Riva 3 Novembre. 
• Caffè San Marco, via Battisti, 18. Open since 1914, San Marco is as popular with today's students and tourists as it was in the days of Saba and Giotti. 
• Caffè Torinese, Corso Italia, 2. Perfectly preserved gem from the 19th century. 
• Caffè Pasticceria Pirona. One of the few remaining petesserias (cake shop that also sells coffee and liqueur, as well as beverages made from) to have retained its Viennese charm. One of its most devoted customers was none other than James Joyce. 
• Caffè degli Specchi, Piazza Unità d'Italia. 
• Chocolat, via Cavana 15. It's a must for hot chocolate in wintertime and chocolate icecream in summertime. 

Locals usually enjoy coffee at the bar in the form of a capo in B, a small cappuccino (kind of like a macchiato but with a but more milk and foam) served in a glass cup. This is a unique kind of coffee only served in Trieste.

• 45.7005213.723641 The Tergeste Youth Hostel, Viale Miramare, 331 (Take line 36 from Oberdan Square to Grignano. Journey takes between 10 and 20 minutes depending on traffic and passes the railway tracks and beach of Barcola. Get off at the Miramare junction, two minutes walk to the hostel.), ☏ +39 040 224102, ostellotrieste@hotmail.com. 74 beds, restaurant indoors and a snack-bar and restaurant on the panoramic terrace. The youth hostel is easily reached by bus. It has a fantastic location with the Adriatic Sea just a few metres in front of it. 
• 45.7748213.624412 ^{[dead link]} B&B Adria, Sistiana, 59/V, ☏ +39 328 09 77 182, adriasistiana@libero.it. Close to the Castle Duino, the Rilke Promenade above the Natural reserve of Duino's Cliffs, very good connections with public transport to airport and downtown. Staff is very friendly and helpful. Double rooms min/max €22/24 per person/night, breakfast is included. 

• 45.6476713.766893 Hotel Porta Cavana, Via Felice Venezian, 14, ☏ +39 04030 1313, hotelportacavana@libero.it. Close to the beautiful Piazza Unità, its rooms have a CD-player, and cable TV. Staff are friendly and speak English. Singles/doubles min/max €36 - 130. 
• 45.6556813.773374 Hotel Roma, Via Ghega 7, ☏ +39 040 370040, info@hotelroma-trieste.it. 3-star hotel in the centre. 19th-century building, hotel bar and even business facilities. 
• 45.6549613.771185 NH Jolly Trieste, Corso Cavour 7, ☏ +39 040 7600055. 
• Hotel Al Ponte, viale Trieste 124, Gradisca, ☏ +39 0481 961116. 
• 45.65041813.7740556 DoubleTree by Hilton Trieste, Piazza della Repubblica, 1, ☏ +39-040-9712950, trsdt_res@hilton.com. Check-in: 15:00, check-out: 12:00. A 4-star hotel that has 125 rooms and suites, 6 meeting rooms, spa centre, fitness centre, a restaurant and a bar. $120. (updated Jul 2020)

• 45.6803613.754287 Greif Maria Theresia, Viale Miramare 109, ☏ +39 040 410115. Elegant hotel few minutes by car from the centre, with indoor swimming pool. €120-250. 

• Romania, Via Udine 11, ☏ +39 040 412536, trieste@mae.ro. (updated Dec 2021)