Historical entry on Trieste

Trieste is a small city near the border of Slovenia. Its in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region; which includes Gorizia, Pordenone and Udine. Trieste is known as the Pearl of the Adriatic. Its hidden between the Carso mountains and the sea. It has a population of 207,069 people.
The mayor is Roberto Dipiazza. Roberto Dipiazza was born in February 1, 1953 in the Province of Undine. In 2001 he was elected mayor of Trieste, and his goals where to improve the cross border relations between Italy and Slovenia, he sucseeded. In 1943 Partisan groups were active throughout northern and central Italy. Very often the partisians were former soldiers cut off from their homes and still in possession of their weapons. Many were young men fleeing from Mussolini, who had extravagant ideas and the did not agree with him. He was the leader of Fascism in Italy during World War II. During World War II there was a concentration camp called 'La Risiera di San Sabba'. Trieste was the only Italian city to have a Nazi concentration camp. Here many Jews, Slovenian, Partisans, Croations, and Italian anti-fascist were executed. Before being a concentration camp it was a rice-husking factory, but the Germans transformed it in 1943. The building is open to the public, and today there are two rooms where documents and information on the concentration camp are exposed! It has attracted many tourists, mainly because it near the stadium 'Nereo Rocco' where the home team 'Triestina' train and sometimes play.