Apartment with a level garden in a villa on the Trieste coast

The slope above the house, to the east-north-east

95 metres away, already 27 degrees above the horizon

The edge of the plateau, where the Bora comes down

458 metres from the house, on the same line

The wind over the sea below the house, compared with the Molo

median of six Bora days in 2003 seen by radar; 0.57 to 0.86 shifting the map

Geometry along 60°: FVG Region LiDAR DTM 1 m 2009; in Trieste the Bora blows from 68° in the median (ARPA FVG-OSMER). Wind over the sea: RADARSAT radar images of six Bora episodes in 2003 (26 January-16 February), from Signell et al., Journal of Geophysical Research 115, C04020 (2010), figure 10, in our reading of the colours: cells 1-3 km from the shore compared with the same off the Molo F.lli Bandiera. This is wind over the sea, not in the garden: on land, here, nobody has ever measured the wind.

On the plot of the 1970s house with a pool now stands the building you see, the result of the works authorised by the 2015 permit. Here are the dates, and what is still missing.

The land-register plan creates the «house and courtyard» parcel for the house of the time, at number 194.

The municipality issues the building permit for the project; in 2019 it extends it.

In the Region's orthophoto, in March, the concrete frame already stands on the old house's parcel.

The amended design; in October the drone films the building on two floors, without the top floor yet.

The crane arrives and the top floor goes up.

The architects draw up the division into three homes. In October 2025 the 3D tour shows the middle floor finished and the top floor with its floors laid.

According to the documents of October 2025, still to come: the completion certificate, the certificate of habitability, the cadastral registration of the three homes, the land-registry subdivision and the energy certificate, which is issued on completion.

Sources: land register (1979 plan), the site power-connection request quoting building permit no. 95/164-11/2015 and its extension, true orthophoto of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region (March 2017), amended design (June 2021), photos and drone footage (2021, 2022, 2025), the architects' drawings (2023-2025), 3D tour (October 2025).

Six public flights over the same frame, from 1989 to March 2017: the 1970s house with its pool, and then the frame of the building site from which today's building grew. Drag the slider and one year dissolves into the next.

Black and white: the houses on the slope between the Strada Costiera and the small pier are already there.

Black-and-white orthophoto, flown in 1989 («1988-89» series) · Italian National Geoportal, Ministry of the Environment (CC BY 4.0)

The small pier and the stone breakwater draw the same shoreline as today.

Black-and-white orthophoto, flown in 1997 («1994-98» series) · Italian National Geoportal, Ministry of the Environment (CC BY 4.0)

The first colour flight: in the centre, next to the house of the time, the blue of the pool.

Colour orthophoto, flown in 1998 («2000» series) · Italian National Geoportal, Ministry of the Environment (CC BY 4.0)

The house with the pool, among the trees, as it was until the building works.

Colour orthophoto, flown in 2007 («2006» series) · Italian National Geoportal, Ministry of the Environment (CC BY 4.0)

The last flight before the 2015 permit: the pool is still there.

Colour orthophoto, flown in 2011 («2012» series) · Italian National Geoportal, Ministry of the Environment (CC BY 4.0)

On the old house's parcel the concrete frame of today's building is already standing.

True orthophoto 2017-2020, flown 12-29 March 2017 · Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia (CC BY 4.0)

Real photos: no generative model, only cropping, resampling to 0.5 m per pixel and alignment on the 2017 flight, which corrects shifts of a few metres between flights. Frame of 640 × 480 m, north at the top.

The true profile of the slope beneath the building, from the village of Santa Croce down to the sea floor. The building sits below the Strada Costiera, which runs about 24 metres above it, a few dozen metres from the shore. Underneath is flysch, the layered rock of the terraces; the limestone of the Karst begins above 200 metres, and the bottom drops to about 10 metres half a kilometre from the shore.

Palaeocene-Eocene, about 60-40 million years ago

Palaeocene-Early Eocene, about 65-50 million years ago

Late Cretaceous-Palaeocene, about 100-56 million years ago

Profile computed along the line perpendicular to the coast through the building: land from the LiDAR survey of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region (1 m terrain model, 2009 flight), one point every 4 m; sea from the EMODnet Bathymetry sea-floor model (cells of about 115 m: between the shore and the first cell at sea the bottom is interpolated); surface rocks from the regional geological map; roads and railway from OpenStreetMap.

ARPA monitoring point at Santa Croce harbour, 350 m away: rated excellent in 2025 and 2026, six samples out of six within limits in 2026

«Miramare and Trieste coast» Biosphere Reserve

the building lies in the transition zone of the MAB programme, Man and the Biosphere

a state nature reserve, below the castle

the coast has been a protected landscape since the decree of 20 April 1964