Piazza Venezia, Trieste

Piazza Venezia is one of the best known squares of Trieste, the capital of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. The square has a view over the Adriatic to the Alps with the Dolomite Mountains Civetta, Monte Pelmo and Antelao. The square is known for its central monument and its prominent buildings and their features: the Revoltella Palace designed by Friedrich Hitzig, with its furnishings and art collection, today including over 350 pieces, the historic Mizzan pharmacy, still conserving the original furnishing, with carved boiserie and fire-worked stained glass windows with mythological images, and the monument of Maximilian I of Mexico, the work of sculptor Johannes Schilling. The square is connected to via Torino, often credited as the center of Trieste's nightlife.