{"id":47516,"date":"2025-10-16T16:13:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.studiopsacaropulo.it\/audioguide-outside\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T11:39:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:39:04","slug":"audioguide-outside","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.studiopsacaropulo.it\/en\/audioguide-outside\/","title":{"rendered":"Audioguide &#8211; Outside"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"47516\" class=\"elementor elementor-47516 elementor-46686\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-625a9c0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default sc_fly_static\" data-id=\"625a9c0\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-extended\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column 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Garden<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"audio_frame audio_local\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<audio data-src=\"https:\/\/www.studiopsacaropulo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/en-1-141125-17.21.mp3\" data-cover=\"\/\/www.studiopsacaropulo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_6069.jpg\" data-caption=\"Villa Margherita, &quot;where the memory of Hellas remains&quot;\" data-author=\"\" class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-47516-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.studiopsacaropulo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/en-1-141125-17.21.mp3?_=1\" \/><a 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data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Welcome to what was once the park of Villa Margherita. We are standing on the hill of Scorcola \u2014 one of the most panoramic in the city, and one of the most eventful. Once a place of battles with the Venetians in medieval times, it later became a center of trade. The street leading up to the villa is called Via Commerciale, one of the first to connect the Karst plateau to the city center. When Via Commerciale was opened in 1780, Scorcola began to thrive: what had once been a wooded slope slowly transformed into one of the most coveted residential quarters of Trieste\u2019s cosmopolitan bourgeoisie.<\/p><p>The year 1856, when Villa Margherita was built, was also the year construction began on Miramare Castle. Trieste was still under Austrian rule, and these were the years in which modern, neoclassical Trieste took shape \u2014 neoclassical not only in style, but in spirit. In <strong>1768<\/strong>, <strong>Johann Joachim Winckelmann<\/strong>, the \u201cpriest of ideal beauty,\u201d had died here, leaving to the Triestines \u201cthe inheritance of a true expiatory cult.\u201d The villa\u2019s project was initially assigned to <strong>Giovanni Andrea Berlam<\/strong>, the patriarch of a family of architects who would transform the face of the city. Between 1872 and 1889, the villa was owned by the renowned hydraulic engineer Giuseppe Mauser, a passionate collector of exotic plants that he proudly cultivated in the lush twelve-thousand-square-meter garden and the neo-Gothic greenhouse. His garden was so admired that it was visited by <strong>Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies<\/strong>, granddaughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria.<\/p><p>In 1895, the villa passed to Luigi Cambiagio, a partner of the shipping company \u201cFratelli Curr\u00f2,\u201d and later, in <strong>1925<\/strong>, to his daughter <strong>Margherita<\/strong>, to whom the villa is now dedicated. During the years between the two World Wars, the park became \u201ca sort of Garden of the Finzi-Continis, a place slightly out of the world where one could lose oneself among apricot trees, chestnuts, and vines&#8230; and where, after September 8, 1943, many political refugees found shelter, in the name of a brotherhood that had become a family tradition.\u201d This is how the villa appeared through the eyes of a young Paolo Rumiz, Margherita\u2019s adopted nephew. But the dream was short-lived: the villa was first seized by the fascists, and in 1945 transformed into a headquarters by the New Zealand troops among the first to arrive in the city during the \u201cRace for Trieste.\u201d<\/p><p>The last illustrious guest to admire the villa in all its splendor \u2014 and to make it the unforgettable setting of Alice Psacaropulo\u2019s wedding banquet in <strong>1950<\/strong> \u2014 was the painter and poet <strong>Cesare Sofianopulo<\/strong>, who was so enchanted that he dedicated a sonnet to it. In that sonnet he celebrated the arrival of a Greek family into a home whose serene fa\u00e7ade, with its twin towers and its gentle smile of Ionic columns, seemed to embody that very promise:<\/p><p>Today, on the day of Beninchasa, <br \/>may the nuptial hymn resound again for you: <br \/>gentleness of a \u201cYes\u201d on which rests <br \/>the good of Italy in a patriarchal home <br \/>where the memory of Hellas still remains.<\/p><p>It was, however, the final act of a chapter now closed forever. After the turbulent years of the Allied Military Government and the definitive return of Trieste to Italy, the park was subdivided and sold, giving way to the modern condominiums that now surround the villa \u2014 designed, incidentally, by Alice\u2019s brother, Alessandro Psacaropulo. The once grand family home, organized as a typical bourgeois residence with its reception floor, noble floor, and servants\u2019 quarters, was divided into private apartments \u2014 still inhabited today, including by the artist\u2019s descendants, who kindly ask visitors to respect the intimacy of this place. The <strong>entrance<\/strong> to Alice\u2019s house-museum is at the rear of the villa, where a red doorbell will open the doors to the Studio Psacaropulo.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-06e45f9 sc_height_huge sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"06e45f9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indoors Audioguide Villa Margherita, &quot;where the memory of Hellas remains&quot; The Villa Garden https:\/\/www.studiopsacaropulo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/en-1-141125-17.21.mp3 Welcome to what was once the park of Villa Margherita. 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