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