Hotel Savoia Excelsior Palace

Top choice in Trieste


The Habsburg-era, seafront Grand Hotel is Trieste's other luxury hotel, offering sumptuous contemporary glamour in place of the Duchi's tradition and history. It offers the most sumptuous public spaces and plush sea-view rooms in the city. The bar, with its crushed-velvet sofas, handmade silk lampshades and shining marble floor is the place to be seen at aperitivo time.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Trieste attractions

1. Piazza dell'Unità d'Italia

0.12 MILES

This vast public space – Italy's largest sea-facing piazza – is an elegant triumph of Austro-Hungarian town planning and contemporary civil pride…

2. Statue of Italo Svevo

0.17 MILES

Triestine modernist writer Italo Svevo is celebrated in this touching bronze, a companion piece to his great friend, James Joyce.

3. Arco di Riccardo

0.2 MILES

The Arco di Riccardo is one of the Roman town gateways, dating from 33 BC, and overlooks a pretty residential square. The gate is named for the English…

4. Museo Joyce & Svevo

0.22 MILES

James Joyce would enjoy the irony: his museum really belongs to friend and fellow literary great, Italo Svevo, housing a significant collection of the…

5. Museo Revoltella

0.23 MILES

This extraordinary house-museum was the home of wealthy Triestini merchant Pasquale Revoltella, who made his fortune in the timber industry and had a hand…

6. Roman Theatre

0.28 MILES

Behind Piazza dell’Unità d’Italia rise remains of the Roman theatre, which was built between the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. Concerts are held here…

7. Civico Museo Sartorio

0.29 MILES

This elegant urban villa set in a large garden belonged to the haute bourgeoisie Sartorio family, who amassed a huge collection of art, ceramics and…

8. Civico Museo Teatrale Carlo Schmidl

0.33 MILES

Trieste's long-standing cultural cred is documented at this museum, housed inside the grand Palazzo Gopcevich, with a collection that traces the city's…