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Duino Castle
Duino (Devin in Slovenian, Tybein in German) , a small tourist village 20km from Trieste, in the coastal part of the Municipality of Duino-Aurisina, lying in the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia in the province of Trieste in north-east Italy.
The total population is recorded as 8,753 (males 4,281, females 4,472, number of families 3,753), the population density (per square kilometre) as 193.8, and housing units as 3,983.
It is noted as the place of death of the physicist Ludwig Boltzmann, and for the Duino Elegies of Rainer Maria Rilke.
There are two castles at Duino: one, still inhabited, has medieval parts that give it a fortified appearance; the other, on a cliff overlooking the sea, is in ruins. This, the earler castle, occupies a site whose natural features make it extremely well-defended. A steep rocky outcrop is linked to the mainland by nothing more than a narrow and low saddle of land.
The new castle of Duino is approximately dated to about the year 1400, when the family Wallsee commanded the construction of a strong fortress. Over time, the Wallsee family disappeared and the castle, after having been used as a prison, became the residence of the Luogar and Hofer. At the end of the 19th century, it became property of the Prince of Thurn and Taxis, as it remains today.
Since 1982, the town has been home to the United World College of the Adriatic, an international school attended by students from 80 different countries.
The furnishings and furniture in the castle, now dispersed, were a mixture of Venetian and Austrian. Marie Thurn and Taxis, the patron of Rainer Maria Rilke, restored the castle and its interiors after it suffered damage in the First World War.
