Are you looking for a central and comfortable accommodation?
Our rooms “al Garibaldino” are the right choice …
Located in the heart of the wonderful Trieste, our rooms offer different accommodation options.
The rooms are furnished and decorated with a characteristic style and equipped with private internal bathroom, air conditioning, TV, wi-fi internet connection.
“Garibaldino Rooms” is located in the historic building in Via Molino a Vento 3, a building also called “palazzo del garibaldino” a building from 1854 renovated and raised by a floor later by the famous architect Max Fabiani in 1930.
In the design and renovation of the rooms, we wanted to respect the historicity of the building without depriving you of any modern comfort.
Garibaldino Rooms is a strategic starting point if you want to visit Trieste in total autonomy, it is located in the historic center of Trieste and overlooks Piazza Garibaldi, a characteristic square where the characteristic stalls that have characterized it since the beginning of the 1900s are still active and functioning.
Garibaldino Rooms is located just 1 km from Piazza Unità d'Italia, in 10 minutes on foot you can reach the heart of the Historic Center of Trieste.
It is close to the Central Station which is 2 km away and can be reached by bus or taxi in a very short time, or thanks to a walk of about 20 minutes that allows you to cross the entire Borgo Teresiano Triestino.
We love pets and will happily welcome your four-legged friends, we only ask you to let us know the presence of the 4-legged guest to guarantee you adequate accommodation.
And to be able to provide the appropriate special sanitization/hygiene works once your accommodation is finished (a supplement of € 10 is required)
We look forward to sharing our love for our City with you.
Garibaldi Square in Trieste deserves a special mention: its appearance has not substantially changed over the last few centuries, while its name, for historical reasons, has changed several times. A strategic area of the city, a crossroads for the traffic of goods of all kinds coming from neighboring towns and the suburbs, it was initially the site of the customs post (from which it took its name).
From the end of the eighteenth century, the then Piazza Dogana was controlled by an austere Austrian customs officer who checked the goods in transit and imposed duties.
A few years later, the square changed its name again: first Piazza Marina, then Piazza Elisabetta in honor of the princess of Austria who linked her name to Trieste and who visited the city for the first time in 1856.
The palace behind the garden, built at the end of the nineteenth century thanks to the capital made available by a bank in Vienna and which was originally intended to house the Supreme Command of the Navy, was later modified in the internal spaces where private homes were created.
At the beginning of the twentieth century it became Piazza della Barriera Vecchia and the first trams began to run through the area.
In the middle of the square, one of the city's historic fountains was installed in 1858, the work of the sculptor Giovanni Depaul based on a design by the architect Vallon: it consists of a dodecagonal basin with a central column that supports a base on which there is a winged putto. In April 1945 (see photo above, taken by Diego De Henriquez) it became a strategic shelter for German soldiers before the surrender.
Historical notes: On April 30, 1945, the National Liberation Committee, whose president was Don Edoardo Marzari, composed of all the anti-fascist political forces with the exception of the communists, proclaimed a general insurrection; at the same time, the Yugoslav partisan brigades, supported by the PCI, attacked from the plateau. The clashes were mainly recorded in the areas of Opicina (on the Karst plateau), Porto Vecchio, San Giusto Castle and inside the Palace of Justice, in the city. All the rest of the city was liberated. The German command surrendered only on May 2 to the New Zealand vanguard, which preceded the arrival of General Freyberg by one day.
In 1954 the Madonnina d’oro was erected, a statue that became the symbol of the square itself. The work was created by the Trieste sculptor Franco Asco.
The rooms are on the 5th floor of the Garibaldino building, and are easily accessible by elevator.
each room is equipped with:
- Double Bed
- Private Bathroom
- Air Conditioning
- Free WiFi
- Winter heating (automatic thermostat)
- Hair Dryer
- Wardrobe
- Flat screen TV with free on air channels and possible Amazon Stick - TV.
- Shared kitchen complete with dishes, stove, fridge, kettle, coffee machine, microwave
If you are travelling by car, you can park your car either for free by patiently searching for a free space near the facility, or in one of the nearby paid car parks, all reachable in a few minutes on foot:
• Garage Regina in via della Raffineria 6 (open from 7am to 7pm, 250 metres from our facility)
• Autorimessa de Giosa in via della Madonnina 6/1 (open from 8am to 8pm – 350 metres from our facility)
• at the large Saba car park in Via della Pietà 7 (open 24 hours a day, 500 metres from our facility) equipped with charging stations for electric vehicles, video surveillance, with access for the disabled.
In this house, overlooking Piazza Garibaldi, a heroic Garibaldian lived and died. He was Captain Giovanni Pagano, born in 1838 in Lugo di Romagna; he was one of the Thousand and it goes without saying that he had a very adventurous life. After the capture of Porta Pia he settled in Trieste; he lived by giving lessons in mathematics and philosophy and keeping accounts for some companies. In 1897 he took part, although no longer very young, in the Greek campaign and fought bravely at Domokos.
After this "romantic adventure" he returned to Trieste and took up employment at the old Municipal Gas Works.
He died on a cold day in December 1900. It was precisely then, in this house, that a clash with the police took place that almost ended in tragedy. The body of the old soldier was laid out in his little room: he was wearing the glorious red shirt with all the decorations he had received.
The Austrian gendarmes were sent to "undress" the dead man, but Pagano's comrades in arms, brandishing chairs and the sword of their deceased friend, engaged in a real battle with the police that, from the deceased's room, continued along the stairs, up to the front door of the house.
The funeral was truly impressive and the old Garibaldian was buried with his red shirt and all his decorations.
(Taken from "Passeggiata Romantica per Trieste" by Leone Veronese Jr)