Piazza Venezia, Trieste

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.

[5] Piazza Venezia was previously called Giuseppina, like the Borgo Giuseppino, in honor of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor.

[5] Today there are still preserved the original decorations and furnishing, including carved boiserie and fire-worked stained glass windows with mythological images.

[2][9] In the center of the square there is the monument of Maximilian I of Mexico, who built the Miramare Castle, one of the symbols of the city, and was instrumental in creating the naval port of Trieste.

Around the octagonal base there are the personifications of the four cardinal points,[12] alternated with medallions with the symbols of the arts, science, poetry and industry.

[2][14][15] On the square's western side there is the Palazzo Scuglievich, built in 1832 after the project of architect Domenico Corti, who is credited with having imprinted on the neighborhood its style.

[2] The palace was renovated and significantly changed in 1863, and in 1876 it was acquired by Mostar-born[16] merchant Cristoforo Scuglievich, part of Trieste's Serb-Orthodox community.

[2] The palace is known for having hosted Nobel prize winner Ivo Andrić during his stay in Trieste between 1922 and 1923,[10] and today there is plaque commemorating the event on the building's facade.