The Audace pier, formerly San Carlo pier in Trieste, stretches out 200+ metres over the water, providing a walking place for any time of the day in any season and a privileged viewpoint for the autumn sunsets that tinge the buildings on the shores red.
The pier was built between 1743 and 1751 on the wreck of the San Carlo, a ship that sank in port. Initially 95m long and joined to the land by a small wooden bridge, the pier gradually grew in length to measure 246m. It was renamed molo Audace in 1922 in honour of the destroyer Audace, the first ship of the Italian Navy to arrive in Trieste on 3 November 1918.
In the past, passenger and merchant ships docked at the San Carlo pier and there was a continuous bustle of goods, merchants and passengers arriving in Trieste from all over the world. Today boats dock only occasionally at Molo Audace, except in October when the international Barcolana regatta draws so many that they are often triple docked.
Friuli Venezia Giulia Film Commission
Piazza Duca degli Abruzzi 3 — 34132 Trieste
Phone: +39 040 3720142
Email: filmcommission@promoturismo.fvg.it
