I learned this fact because I had a first date with a girl who suggested that place, knowing I'm a writer. Five years later I chose that same spot to propose :)
That’s nice colour. I’d love to find somewhere that acts as the “neighbourhoods lounge” in SF now.
I'll even recommend visiting the town of Trieste itself!
It’s a city
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Please, don't come. There are already too many tourists. The city center has become almost unlivable in the Summer.
The curse of living in the most desirable country on Earth to visit!
The alternative would have probably been worse, considering that Trieste has been slowly dying since WWI, more or less. Like Venezia (and arguably, various other parts of Italy), it was built to do something that is now largely unnecessary, so it will likely survive only as a curiosity.
I come occasionally for pizza and ice cream, sorry.
And, by coincidence,in The Godfather Part II he shot some scenes in the actual city of Trieste. The Ellis Island building is a an old fish market in Trieste.
Fun fact, but I doubt anyone on HN still lives in San Francisco.