by In Trieste
There is something both eerie and mesmerizing about abandoned places. Whether it’s an empty hotel or a restaurant, each location is a snapshot of history frozen in time.
Have you ever thought how much fun would it be to find abandoned places near you to explore?
A group of friends, two journalists and a photographer, driven by curiosity and explorer gene, have been mapping abandoned sites across Friuli Venezia Giulia since 2016.
In the past five years, Micol Brusaferro, Emilio Ripari and Giada Genzo, have become inspired by the urban exploration of abandoned places in the northeast Italy.
Abandoned places fascinate them as there is usually some interesting or dark history behind, simple “not enough money” is never the only answer.
In the past five years they’ve discovered abandoned schools, plants, public offices, discos, restaurants, hotels and many barracks.
With time the goal of this project became sharing with the public what happens to properties when they’re left to their own devices and become destroyed by vandals or environmental factors. And how different their destinies might’ve been if they had been instantly taken care of.
Many of the buildings in the pictures belong to governmental entities.
At the beginning the project would map the places with the exact addresses but later those were removed to prevent possible injuries of unprepared but curious explorers.
The project, which is called Trieste Abbandonata (literally: abandoned Trieste), has inspired three exhibits and one conference. Micol, Giada and Emilio were also invited to reunions on the future of various abandoned properties.
Take a tour of these mesmerizing sites around Trieste and Friuli Venezia Giulia here—stark reminders of what used to be, with beauty seeping through the broken glass.
