QUESTIONI ARCHEOLOGICHE APERTE NEL PARCOSTORICO DI

MIRAMARE A TRIESTE

StefaniaMusco

viadeiPagliericci26,34124Trieste,stefaniamuscovich@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

In 1856 the Archduke Maximilian of Austria, then young Austrian Navy’s Commander-in-Chief, chose to

live in Trieste, then first port of the Empire, and began to build the complex of Miramar on the beautifull

promontoryofGrignano.

The complete history of the Miramar park has been reconstructed in the thesis “Studi e osservazioni per la

valorizzazione del Parco storico di Miramar a Trieste” discussed in december 2012 by Politecnico of Milan’s

Scuola di specializzazione in Beni architettonici e del Paesaggio. Through inedited archive texts and old

austrian publications, unaspected archeological news have come out about unknown roman evidences near

andbypark.

Trieste’s Costiera is rich of roman and medevial sites, studied at half ‘800 by the historian and archaeologist

Pietro Kandler, to whom the archduke Maximilian himself asked a research about the past of Grignano. The

roman sites already known by Kandler, a port in Grignano with Villa and another Villa near the former

Stables, have been scheduled by the University of Trieste. But, as evidenced by some slovenian authors, the

currentarchaeologicalsceneisstillconfusedanduncompleted.

The contribute focuses the new acquisitions about Miramar’s roman sites obtained through archive texts and

cartographies and gives a critic rereading of the main archaeological text about Grignano, an undiscussed

transcription of Kandler’s writings, which compared with the originals papers has revealed to be inaccurate

anddeceiving.

Parolechiave/Key-words: Miramare,Grignano,Kandler,Gasparini,deJenner,Minoriti