Palazzo Haggi — Apt. 2 · 122 sqm · floor 1 · San Vito, Trieste

At 122 commercial square metres — roughly 120 usable — Apartment 2 is the largest of the lower-floor homes at Palazzo Haggi, on the first floor of number 4, Via Benedetto Marcello. Its defining feature is outdoors: a private internal courtyard of about 23 square metres, quiet and screened, the kind of space that almost never survives on a lower floor in the centre. Inside, a two-bedroom plan with room to breathe — entrance hall, living area with kitchenette, a large master bedroom with its own wardrobe zone, a single bedroom and two bathrooms, one with a shower and a service bathroom.

The district is San Vito; Piazza Cavana is five minutes on foot, Piazza Unità d'Italia seven. Palazzo Haggi is the work of Ruggero Berlam. Its neo-medieval façades — projecting string courses, columns, capitals — are listed by the Soprintendenza and restored to their original colours, and the historic stone entrance hall and staircase have been brought back. Behind that shell, the building has been fully renovated, seismically upgraded and made energy-efficient.