Trsat

Trsat (Italian: Tersatto, Latin: Tarsatica) is part of the city of Rijeka, Croatia, with a historic castle or fortress in a strategic location and several historic churches, in one of which the Croatian noble Prince Vuk Krsto Frankopan is buried. Trsat is a steep hill, 138 m high, rising over the gorge of the Rječina river, about a kilometre away from the sea; strategically significant from the earliest times right up to the 17th century, it is today a major Christian pilgrimage centre and home to a statue of Pope John Paul II who came to Trsat as a Pilgrim in 2003.^[1] Today, the University of Rijeka's newly constructed campus lies in the western part of Trsat.

^ Novosti i Najave – Cardinal Bozanić unveiled a monument to John Paul II in Trsat. Archived 2012-02-13 at the Wayback Machine at Vlada.hr (in Croatian)

[1] Novosti i Najave – Cardinal Bozanić unveiled a monument to John Paul II in Trsat. Archived 2012-02-13 at the Wayback Machine at Vlada.hr (in Croatian)

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