San Sabba Rice Mill – National Monument

Visit the museum declared a National Monument in 1965, renovated by architect Romano Boico and converted into a civic museum in 1975.

The museum of the Risiera di S. Sabba is located in a building, built in 1898 for rice husking, which was used after the autumn of 1943 by the occupying Nazis as a police detention camp (Polizeihaftlager), intended both for the sorting of the racial and political deportees in Germany and in Poland and for the deposit of stolen goods, and for the detention and extermination of Italian, Slovenian and Croatian hostages, partisans and political prisoners.

Moreover, a crematorium was added in 1944.

Declared a National Monument in 1965, the complex of the Risiera was renovated by architect Romano Boico and transformed into a municipal museum in 1975.

The 17 cells and the death cell have remained unchanged. It houses a permanent historical exhibition and a library.

The Room of the Crosses displays a selection of goods stolen from Trieste's Jews, donated by the Jewish Community of Trieste; the Museum Room displays objects and documents donated by the ex deportees of the ANED (Italian National Association of the ex Political Deportees in the Nazi Camps).

Risiera di San Sabba (San Sabba Rice Mill - National Monument)
Via Giovanni Palatucci 5
34148 Trieste
Tel. +39 040 826202
Fax +39 040 825673
www.risierasansabba.it
risierasansabba@comune.trieste.it

Please visit the website

Free admission

Group bookings (from 10 people and up) must be made directly by the guide who will conduct the tour, not by the agency or the teacher.
Please note: the booking address is only this:
prenotazione.ingresso@comune.trieste.it (not risierasansabba@comune.trieste.it).