Lungomare Trieste, Mediterranean seaside promenade in Salerno, Italy.
Lungomare Trieste is a pedestrian garden promenade along the Tyrrhenian Sea in central Salerno, running about 1.5 km from Piazza della Libertà to the Masuccio Salernitano marina. It is 30 metres wide and made of three parallel avenues divided by planted beds of palms, tamarisks, holm oaks, Aleppo pines and plane trees.
The promenade did not exist before the 19th century. The first section and its gardens were built in the early decades of the 20th century, reaching today's Palazzo della Provincia by the 1930s. After the 1944 Vesuvius eruption and World War II air raids, the next stretch was built using volcanic ash mixed with rubble. The work was completed in the early 1950s, when long beach sections were filled and the Masuccio Salernitano marina was created.
The name recalls Trieste, the city on the Adriatic, and the promenade was called the most beautiful in the Mediterranean in the 1950s. A railway track once ran along the outermost avenue, carrying goods from the commercial port to the station. The palm beds mix Canary Island date palms, date palms, Washingtonia and Chamaerops with tamarisks, holm oaks, Aleppo pines and plane trees.
The promenade runs about 1.5 km from Piazza della Libertà to the Masuccio Salernitano marina, 30 metres wide and entirely pedestrian. Three parallel avenues are separated by planted beds. Since 2011 tactile paths and step-free routes serve blind and visually impaired visitors. The seaward avenue still carries the old freight rail track.
On the outermost avenue runs a railway track that once carried goods unloaded at the commercial port to the railway station by a dedicated train. The line is a remnant of the promenade's working past, easy to overlook beside the pedestrian paths.
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