Timavo River Springs – View of the Gulf of Trieste loop from Sistiana-Visogliano

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Italy

Friuli Venezia Giulia

Trieste

Duino-Aurisina / Devin - Nabrežina

Timavo River Springs – View of the Gulf of Trieste loop from Sistiana-Visogliano

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Timavo River Springs – View of the Gulf of Trieste loop from Sistiana-Visogliano

02:19

46.8km

540m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Some segments of this route may be unpaved and difficult to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: July 31, 2026

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5.47 km

Monument to the Wolf of San Giovanni di Duino

Highlight • Monument

Nearby are the resurgences of the Timavo river.

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5.66 km

Timavo springs and the Church of San Giovanni in Tuba

Highlight • River

The Timavo river re-emerges from the subsoil after a long karst path right near the beautiful church of San Giovanni in tuba. The place is very impressive, easy to reach and worth a visit.

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5.74 km

Timavo River Springs

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We are in one of the most particular and mystical places in the lower Friuli area. Here the course of the Timavo river reappears after having sunk near Škocjan in Slovenia for a 39km long underground route.
The area of the springs, located in the municipality of Duino-Aurisina, has been an important place of worship since ancient times. The presence of a river that flowed from the earth had intrigued and frightened primitive populations. Diomedes, Hercules, Saturn, the Spes Augusta, Liber Augustus and the god Temavus were venerated.
Virgil was so impressed by it that he mentioned it three times: Eclogue VIII, 6, Georgics, book III, 475 and Aeneid, book I, 244.
The Via Flavia passed through here and in the area of the mouth of the Timavo the amber road reached the Adriatic Sea, along which the precious fossil resin was imported from the Baltic since pre-Roman times.
In the 4th century, with the advent of Christianity, the first chapel was built, which, with subsequent modifications, became the basilica of San Giovanni in Tuba

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8.58 km

View of the Gulf of Trieste

Highlight • Viewpoint

Can you already smell it?

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15.3 km

Church of Doberdo

Highlight • Religious Site

It is a church rebuilt after the First World War as the old structure was seriously damaged during the conflict. The current building dates back to 1925.

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22.0 km

Bell Tower of the Church of San Martino del Carso

Highlight • Religious Site

Rebuilt in the early 1920s in neo-Romanesque style, after being completely destroyed along with the rest of the town during the First World War, the current church of San Martino Vescovo was completed in 1925 and is located in the center of the town.

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