More than twenty thousand people
and numerous schoolchildren visited the 'Histri in Istria'
exhibition in Trieste, hosted by the Museum of Antiquities 'J.
J. Winckelmann. The Croatian Community of Trieste and the
Archaeological Museum of Istria organized the exhibition, with
the Municipality of Trieste as co-organizer.
"Last Sunday, more than 900 people attended the exhibition,"
explained the president of the Croatian Community, Damir
Murkovic, emphasizing that thanks to the exhibition and "the
side events, the fruitful relations between the numerous
cultural institutions, Italian and Croatian, interested in the
history and identity of the Istrian peoples have been further
expanded."
The exhibition, curated by Martina Blecic Kavur of the
University of Primorska Koper/Capodistria and recently closed,
had the merit of featuring for the first time in Italy the
customs and traditions of the Histri, an ancient Indo-European
people who gave their name to the Istrian peninsula and
inhabited it until the fall of the fortified center of
Nesactium, their 'capital,' in 177 B.C., The exhibition
dedicated to the Histri, with more than 200 precious
archaeological finds, is part of a trilogy on the pre-Roman
peoples of Illyria, an initiative launched in 2018 with an
exhibition on the Iapodes, which will be closed with a final
event on the Liburni.
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