Rilke trail

The Rilke path is a path in Duino- Aurisina in Italy, which is named after Rainer Maria Rilke.

The poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) wrote the ten Duino Elegies, the Duino and its cliffs made ​​known throughout the world during his stays at Castle Duino 1912-1922.

The painting is still in possession of the Thurn and Taxis family exploiting dividend castle was at the beginning of the 20th century place of a literary salons, to the next Rainer Maria Rilke, among others, Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss, Paul Valery, Victor Hugo, Gabriele D' Annunzio, Mark Twain and Eleonora Duse and members of the imperial family as Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Empress Elisabeth and Emperor Franz Joseph I were guests. Rilke long walks along the cliff to Sistiana are legendary, and the Rilke path ( Sentiero Rilke ) was consequently early his name.

1987 this route was attached, secured and developed on behalf of the province of Trieste and the municipality of Duino- Aurisina. He was covered over a length of nearly two kilometers by gravel, equipped with signs and secured to the dangerous places and some spectacular viewpoints of the Gulf of Trieste with wooden fences. Since 1996 are the hiking trail, the subsequent 107 -acre pine grove and the Duino under protection. In 2000, the connection of the path between Duino Duino and was completed.

Since April 2013, the Rilke path is only accessible in part, because a part of the territory on which it extends, is now privately owned.