MIRAMARE OPENS ITS DOORS TO AVP GALA

Despite its beauty, excellent food, and history, which dates back to 1400 BC, the port city of Trieste is one of the relatively lesser-known Italian destinations. By the second century BC, Trieste was under the control of the Romans, whose emperor Augustus built its first major harbor. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Trieste passed hands several times before falling under Habsburg control in the 14th Century. But its heyday arrived in 1719 when it became the main port of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and its population quickly increased 30-fold. At the end of World War I, however, Trieste was taken over by Italy as per the earlier Treaty of
London on grounds that two-thirds of its population was Italian.

The nearby beautiful Miramare Castle, where the AVP Summit Opening Night Gala was held, dates to the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and was commissioned for Archduke Maximillian, the future, short-lived Emperor Maximillian of Mexico. In 1864, before the completion of the castle, Maximillian left for Mexico, where he was executed three years later.

The castle Miramar apt for the opening night of the Summit Gala, since many productions have been shot in the castle, some of the scenes of the 2003 Rai Fiction miniseries “Soraya” on the love story between the Shah of Iran and his second wife, Soraya Esfandiari and the Netflix Italian original series titled “Lift.”.
–Caren Davidkhanian