Duino
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Duino (, ) is today a seaside resort on the northern Adriatic coast. It is a hamlet of Duino-Aurisina, a municipality (comune) of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of northeastern Italy. The settlement, picturesquely situated on the steep Karst cliffs of the Gulf of Trieste, is known for Duino Castle, immortalized by the poet Rainer Maria Rilke in his Duino Elegies.
Key facts
- Italian frazione.name
- Duino
- Italian frazione.image_skyline
- Castello di Duino 0904.jpg
- Italian frazione.image_caption
- Duino Castle
- Italian frazione.mapframe
- yes
- Italian frazione.region
- Friuli-Venezia Giulia
- Italian frazione.comune
- Duino-Aurisina
- Italian frazione.population_total
- 1,421
- Italian frazione.population_as_of
- 2001
- Italian frazione.gentilic
- Duinesi or Duinati
- Italian frazione.elevation_m
- 39
- Italian frazione.postal_code
- 349011
- Italian frazione.area_code
- 040
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Duino (, ) is today a seaside resort on the northern Adriatic coast. It is a hamlet of Duino-Aurisina, a municipality (comune) of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of northeastern Italy. The settlement, picturesquely situated on the steep Karst cliffs of the Gulf of Trieste, is known for Duino Castle, immortalized by the poet Rainer Maria Rilke in his Duino Elegies.
==Name== Duino was attested in historical sources as Duino in 1139, Dewin in the 13th century, and Tybein 1370, among various other forms of the name. Equivalents of the Slovene name appear in various Slavic languages (cf. Slovak Devín, Polish Dziewin, etc., all ultimately derived from Slavic *děva 'girl'). However, another possibility is that the name of this settlement may derive from Romance tubīnum < Latin tubus '(water) pipe'.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Duino” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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