Today, a beautiful autumn day (I'd say late summer) invited to take this opportunity to arrange an exit, said that, I decided to go up to the Castle S. Servolo that, despite being very close to Trieste, I never visited as it is in Slovenia and had never managed to find the road to get there. Since the borders have fallen is reachable on foot from Italy through a beautiful trail drawn from S. Dorligo Valley (Dolina).
parking, so the car near the village cemetery and, after crossing the nearby road which connects to Crogole Prebenico, I am faced with an open space tourist signs
Sgurenz and the source ( 140 m) where the water comes from the plateau of St. Servolo and, according to locals, would be equipped with mysterious healing properties.
supplied the bottle (you never know), take the cart that goes up and decided, at the first fork, keep right and follow the signs to Socerb (San Servolo) on a stone in the middle bifurcation.
After a while we are at another crossroads where you turn left helped by other information on a pine.
The cart turns into the path and continue to climb past a sign indicating the proximity of the border, and soon after, the Boundary and continue now in Slovenia. Surrounded by a forest of oak and hornbeam, are in short on a massive scale fortification that looms over the landscape is called karst ridge line where the summit is perched on my first try. After thirty minutes of walking I come out of the woods and the trail is asphalt area of \u200b\u200bthe charming village of Socreb, now we have more work behind the line (which it is better to pitch quiet for now do not run out beer). Upon entering the country, to my right opens a series of spectacular views over the bay of Trieste and the plain of Zaule.
rests on the top left hand, the shape of the castle in white Istrian stone.
Immediately after the church in 1648 dedicated to St. Servolo turn left at the sign indicating the direction to reach the restaurant located in the castle,
and I stop to observe the "kal", the pond where, in the past, they watered their cows
my approach to a swarm of frogs take refuge in the water.
After the pond, with the manor's front entrance to a beautiful staircase which quickly brings me to the base of the castle (436 m).
What you see today is what remains of a much larger building which was the protagonist of fierce and bloody fighting.
The panorama from the castle is huge and this justifies the building here of a work like this.
The original was almost certainly a tower built from Istria in the ninth century to spot the ruthless Hungarians. Incorporated in the diocese of Aquileia, in 1295 it was ceded to the municipality of Trieste and protagonist in the struggle for control of production and salt trade between Austria and Venice. Until the early years of the '500, the castle changed hands several times. In 1508 with the establishment of the League of Cambrai promoted by the warrior Pope Julius II, the conflict became more heated and they see and deal with the imperial Muggia Trieste to Venice datas always to control the salt. In that year, the nearby castle of Val Draga in Rosandra was attacked by Triestina this episode followed the attack by the Venetians in Trieste after a long siege with numerous artillery were able to seize the castle of St. Just not yet completed. I paid 20,000 ducats Trieste as a pledge for a loss. The brief period of peace was plagued by an outbreak of plague and an earthquake, but despite this, 3 October 1511, the Triestians under the command of Captain Nicholas Rauber, flanked by soldiers of imperial Christopher Frangipani, penetrate into the plain below Zaule with the aim of taking all the Venetian fortresses and make the final attack in Muggia. All but defensively fell Muggia, defended by Captain John Farra (the Bombizza) held firm until the arrival by sea of \u200b\u200ballies from Koper. The siege was lifted and while they were returning home, soldiers from Trieste, on its own initiative, to avoid future problems, since they were in the area, attacked and razed the castle of Moccò (now called pre-emptive war). With the castle of St. Servolo now in the hands of Trieste, Koper tried to bribe the governor of the Austrian with a large sum of money. The governor then pretended to accept the agreement but warned that the garrison in Trieste, strengthened by a hundred soldiers, awaited the enemy in the castle, and these coming at night and did not realize the trap just after the drawbridge were attacked and massacred. In 1521 Nicholas Rauber obtained from the Emperor Charles V's lordship S. Servolo for the loyalty shown to the crown. In 1529 the Doge of Koper lead a successful attack on Salt Zaule destroyed but did not arrive at the castle. Also in the next century the castle is a stronghold of Austria, the future captain of cesarean Trieste Welcome Petazzi VI acquires the lordship of the castle, the weapon with two guns and called to defend a formidable garrison Uscocchi Croats who fled from Croatia and Bosnia and conquered by the Turks. In 1615, Venice is still trying to conquer S. Servolo with the administrator Benedict Lezze Petazzi but won a complete victory in the battle fought near the salt mines. It was not just Venice soldiers, wounded by guns Uskoks, drowned in the flooded areas of salt. The following year the new superintendent John Belegno brings a new attack on the castle this time with Albanian troops advancing to the walls since focusing on infrastructure devices without success, however, to infringe it. The castle is no longer affected by the war. In later years, ended the war of salt, switch to different buyers. At the end of 1700 a lightning strike causes a fire that destroyed the roofs; neglect following turns it into a ruin. At the beginning of 900 and was restored during the Second World War and was occupied by the Yugoslav army, considered a site of strategic Slavic state was annexed as a result of peace negotiations. In 2000 he opened his restaurant within the structure. How much history has passed in front of these walls.
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