Building plot above the gulf with a villa project, Strada Costiera

Along the Strada Costiera, below the village of Santa Croce, a plot of 1,545 m² (surveyed) steps down towards the Gulf of Trieste on six dry-stone terraces, from over sixty to forty-five metres above the sea. It already has what is hardest to obtain on this coast: the landscape authorisation for a villa, which the Municipality of Trieste granted in 2024 once the Soprintendenza had said yes. It is valid for five years and works must begin by May 2029; the next step is the building permit.

The project is a single-storey house of about 120 m² gross, set against the terrace and covered by a lawn roof that makes it disappear into the slope: a 39 m² living room with a glass wall onto the sea, the kitchen, two bedrooms, a bathroom and a second, smaller bathroom. In front, the terrace paved in Aurisina stone with a timber pergola and a 5 by 2.5 metre pool flush with the floor; up by the road, parking for two cars. All the dry-stone walls are restored, and the project plants thirteen new trees.

The sun comes over the Karst and stays until evening: more than thirteen hours on 21 June, eight on 21 December, and in winter it sets into the open sea.