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Trieste National Hall

The Trieste National Hall or Slovene Cultural Centre in Trieste is a multimodal building that served for 15 years as a social and economic centre for the Slovene minority in the city. It included the Slovene theatre in Trieste, a hotel, a restaurant, a gym and numerous cultural associations. It is notable for having been burned in 1920 by Italian Fascists following the murder of several Italian Navy soldiers in Dalmatia by Yugoslavs, which made it a symbol of the Slovene minority in Italy. The building was restored from 1988 to 1990. and later used as a hotel. Around 2010 it has been renovated according to the original plans.

Building
Such institutions were typical in Slovenian ethnic territory in the decades around 1900. It was built by the Slovenian architect Max Fabiani between 1901 and 1904. It had an ornate facade and state-of-the-art equipment, including an electric generator and central heating. ==Fascist attack==
Fascist attack
On 13 July 1920, at the end of a violent anti-Slovenian demonstration The act was praised by Benito Mussolini, who had not yet assumed power, as a "masterpiece of the Triestine Fascism" (). ==Legacy==
Legacy
Boris Pahor's autobiographical novel Trg Oberdan describes how he witnessed the Fascists burning the building. ==Further reading==
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