Festivals in Trieste

A new event for summer 2026, SanGio Fest brings a multi-day, widespread festival to via San Cilino, in the heart of the popular San Giacomo...

Organized by SISSA, Scienza e Virgola is Trieste's scientific book festival: national previews, meetings with authors, performances, and scr...

Mare e Vitovska in Morje is the grand festival dedicated to Vitovska, the indigenous grape variety symbolising the Trieste Karst. For two ev...

The Servola Bread Festival celebrates every spring the "biga servolana", the white bread that for generations the pancogole (women bread mak...

The heart of short cinema in Trieste, the ShorTS International Film Festival brings about 120 international works to the city in seven compe...

Spring at the Castle is the event that annually welcomes the arrival of the beautiful season at Duino Castle, in the municipality of Duino A...

For one week in May, Trieste becomes the stage for the Spring Festival: free admission performances, exhibitions, and concerts, conceived an...

For a long weekend, Trieste fills with swing music and Lindy Hop rhythm: Swing Harbour brings dancers from all over Europe to the Miela Thea...

The TACT Festival brings theatre, contemporary circus, music, and visual arts to the streets and squares of Trieste's Barriera Vecchia and S...

Teranum is the festival that celebrates the native red wines of the Karst, Terrano and Refosco, in Trieste, an authentic expression of a lan...

The Energy of Places – Festival of Wind and Stone is the contemporary art festival of Duino Aurisina, in the Trieste Karst. Sculpture reside...

The Trieste Carnival enlivens the city center with its Masked Parade, a procession of floats and masked groups competing for the Palio: from...

For over a month, from the heart of Trieste until Epiphany, the historic center fills with illuminated wooden huts. Between via delle Torri,...

For over ninety years, the Trieste Concert Society has brought great classical music performers to the city. Its season at the Verdi Theatre...

The Trieste Film Festival is the main Italian event dedicated to Central and Eastern European cinema. Every January, for nine days, the capi...

As part of Trieste Estate, the Free Music Festival brings chamber music and sound experimentation to the gardens and historic spaces of the...

Every year, at the end of March, Trieste's main boulevard transforms into a large open-air garden. Trieste in Fiore – Spring Delights enlive...

Trieste Loves Jazz is the festival that brings great international jazz to the squares and gardens of Trieste every summer. Promoted by the...