More than 20,000 visitors to exhibition on Histri in Trieste

(ANSA) - BELGRADE, APR 10 - 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. (ANSA).