The Renewal of Porto Vecchio
The area of Porto Vecchio is an opportunity for the economic relaunching of the port and the city, for it is a development centre with a maritime vocation, but also with urban significance. Today the choice of Trieste, in line with that of the major world ports, is to privilege also those activities that are indirectly related to its port.
Since 1972 Porto Vecchio has gradually lost its function, that has been taken up by the new infrastructures built in the southern part of the city. They will be further enlarged and will host the activities now carried out at Porto Vecchio.
The Trieste Port Authority is deeply involved in the restoration and rehabilitation intervention in Porto Vecchio. Porto Vecchio will therefore become a new district within the city, a district mainly devoted to port activities, sailing and yachting, cruise industry, exhibitions and services. The historical warehouses will host new activities and their historical identity will be enhanced by the new functions they will play: they will be turned into specialisation schools for the various professions of the maritime sector, academic centres of excellence as well as conference, cultural and arts centres.
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