HOW TO REACH US

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Locating Europe and Italy is not a problem, and locating Trieste is as easy as looking at the top right corner of a map of Italy, on the coastline. But once you get here you will have to face the usual discouraging tangle of one-way paths, heavy city traffic and unreasonable stoplights a still unfamiliar city uses to welcome the visitor with.
In order to help you through such a minor ordeal we have some suggestions you might find useful.

If you come by PLANE or by TRAIN, or anyway if you are not driving your car, your problem is easily solved: just jump in a taxi-cab and hand the driver a note reading -"via Fleming 31, dietro l'Università nuova" - the specification concerning the new University being required, as via Fleming is scarcely populated and thus little known. The trip should take no longer than 10 minutes and cost about $12 (or 10€); the driver won't expect any tip from you, although he would hardly refuse one if offered.
Once there, just reach the farthest cottage, come in and ask for the person you are in touch with.

If you come by CAR, you will most likely reach Trieste through the strada Costiera, a road high on the sea that offers a very attractive seasight. Enjoy it thoroughly, it is worthwhile.
After some 8 miles of strada Costiera you will find two short tunnels very close to each other, from which you know that you are approaching the city proper. The road lowers down smoothly to nearly the sea level, and within a minute or two you are driving along the beach, where during the mild season plenty of people use to bath, including some rather fine specimens. Don't forget to keep an eye on the road.
Soon you will go through a built-up area followed by a few miles of quad-lane road that eventually under a massive iron bridge (for the railroad) narrows to a boulevard.
Within less than a mile you will run into two traffic-lights very close to each other. The long neoclassic building to your right is the railway station (S), and in front of you there is a rather large square with a garden in the center, that you should skip on the right while following the main traffic stream. Should you fear to lose your spirits (P), reachable by just going straight on after the façade of the station, is your last practical opportunity to park decently and take a taxi,. Else, after the traffic-light placed at the end of the garden, strive to squeeze in the middle lane with your left blinker on, for soon you will have to turn. Count two blocks on your left, the second one hosting the Jolly Hotel (J), and as soon as the traffic-light at the end of the second block turns green turn left.
Now you are (1), in via Milano, the beginning of a path that will lead you to the University without exceeding pain: just follow it as long as you can, obliging all its whims. After 6 blocks your path will cross a broad street (2), bending then slightly to the left at a traffic-light; after another while (3) a gentle slope will begin. When you find a slanting fork (4), take the right branch discarding the left one, much narrower, and keep going uphill. As, after several curves, you see on your left the main building of the University (U), looking like this,