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Relief of the Gulf of Trieste, the Slovenian coast and the Karst, seen from the sea west of Piran looking north-east, with the 15, 30 and 45-minute rings from Piazza Unità.
The Gulf of Trieste seen from the Karst edge above Socerb on a clear morning: wooded hills in the foreground; beyond, on the left the port of Koper with the Ankaran headland, in the centre the Muggia peninsula and its town, on the right the cranes of the port of Trieste.Reworked with AILight, haze and woodland colours recreated with AI. The motion in the video is generated with AI.Photo: Daniel Thornton · CC BY 2.0Full details
Tito Square in Koper at first light, empty: on the left the stone bell tower of the cathedral with its clock, in the centre a pink building with arcades, on the right the crenellated Praetorian Palace with its outside staircase and loggia.
45.548° N · 13.730° E
Reworked with AIEarly-morning light and the empty square recreated with AI. The motion in the video is generated with AI.Photo: Fred Romero from Paris, France · CC BY 4.0Full details
Piran from above at blue hour, from the hill of the town walls: the red roofs of the old town down to the tip, Tartini Square with the town hall and the first street lamps lit, on the right the church of St George with its lit bell tower and the octagonal baptistery, another bell tower in the foreground; beyond, the open sea.
45.528° N · 13.569° E
Reworked with AIThe evening light and the lit lamps were recreated with AI. The motion in the video is generated with AI.Photo: Boštjan Rudolf from Koper, Slovenia · CC BY 2.0Full details
White Lipizzaner mares with dark foals grazing under the oaks of Lipica, on the dry grass of late summer, with a veil of mist between the trunks in the background.
45.669° N · 13.883° E
Reworked with AIThe morning mist was recreated with AI. The motion in the video is generated with AI.Photo: Žiga (Wikimedia Commons, opera propria, PD-self) · Public domainFull details
The relief in five stills
The Gulf of Trieste seen from the Karst edge above Socerb on a clear morning: wooded hills in the foreground; beyond, on the left the port of Koper with the Ankaran headland, in the centre the Muggia peninsula and its town, on the right the cranes of the port of Trieste.Reworked with AILight, haze and woodland colours recreated with AI. The motion in the video is generated with AI.Photo: Daniel Thornton · CC BY 2.0Full details

01/ 05The Flight

The border is a line, not a wall.

Slovenia has been in the Schengen area since 2007: between Trieste and Koper there is no customs post any more, just a sign and different tarmac. Italy keeps temporary checks, notified to the European Union, currently in force until 18 December 2026.

Schengen
since 21 December 2007
Temporary checks
Italy, 19 June 2026 – 18 December 2026
Slovenian motorway
not for the coast from Trieste since 1 January 2026; yes for Sežana and Divača on the A3
The relief in five stills
Tito Square in Koper at first light, empty: on the left the stone bell tower of the cathedral with its clock, in the centre a pink building with arcades, on the right the crenellated Praetorian Palace with its outside staircase and loggia.
45.548° N · 13.730° E
Reworked with AIEarly-morning light and the empty square recreated with AI. The motion in the video is generated with AI.Photo: Fred Romero from Paris, France · CC BY 4.0Full details

02/ 05The Flight

Koper, 27 minutes from Piazza Unità.

The port, the old town that grew on an island, the university, the services of a real town. Behind it, hills of olives and vines, where people look for houses with a view of the gulf.

Koper
27 min · 21 km
Ankaran
23 min · 18 km
Hill elevations
Žusterna 23 m · Šalara 107 m · Prade 55 m
The relief in five stills
Piran from above at blue hour, from the hill of the town walls: the red roofs of the old town down to the tip, Tartini Square with the town hall and the first street lamps lit, on the right the church of St George with its lit bell tower and the octagonal baptistery, another bell tower in the foreground; beyond, the open sea.
45.528° N · 13.569° E
Reworked with AIThe evening light and the lit lamps were recreated with AI. The motion in the video is generated with AI.Photo: Boštjan Rudolf from Koper, Slovenia · CC BY 2.0Full details

03/ 05The Flight

The coast, without a car.

From Koper to Portorož runs the Parenzana, the narrow-gauge railway closed in 1935 and now a cycle path: it passes Izola, tunnels under the hills of Strunjan and drops towards Portorož.

Koper – Portorož by bike
14 km · 48 min at 18 km/h
Izola – Strunjan
5.8 km · 19 min
Portorož (POW)
airport: general aviation, no scheduled flights
The relief in five stills
White Lipizzaner mares with dark foals grazing under the oaks of Lipica, on the dry grass of late summer, with a veil of mist between the trunks in the background.
45.669° N · 13.883° E
Reworked with AIThe morning mist was recreated with AI. The motion in the video is generated with AI.Photo: Žiga (Wikimedia Commons, opera propria, PD-self) · Public domainFull details

04/ 05The Flight

The Karst: twenty minutes, another climate.

From the plain of Koper the road climbs the escarpment and within a few kilometres the landscape changes: stone, black pine, sinkholes, Teran vineyards, the bora in winter. Sežana, Lipica and Kozina sit on the plateau.

Elevation of the centre
Kozina 491 m · Lipica 403 m · Sežana 370 m
Sežana
18 min · 14 km
Lipica
23 min · 15 km
The relief in five stills

05/ 05The Flight

Four worlds in half an hour.

The seaside towns, the riviera, the hills of Koper and the Karst. Each world is as far as its nearest place; every place has its own page, with drive times, elevations and recorded sales.

  • Seaside townsOld towns on the water, made for walking
  • RivieraSeafront promenades, marinas, pine woods and spas
  • The hills of KoperTerraces, olive groves and vineyards behind Koper
  • The KarstA stone plateau: black pine, Teran wine, sinkholes

World boundaries are indicative and drawn by us.

Explore the places
A vineyard on red soil below Tomaj, in the Karst: rows of reddening vines leading towards the village on the ridge, with the bell tower on the right and a telecommunication mast in the centre; two wooden poles in the foreground, a meadow on the left. Morning light, clear sky.
Reworked with AIThe autumn red of the vines, the light and the sky were recreated with AI: the photograph was taken in September. The motion in the video is generated with AI.Photo: Gorupka from Tomaj, Slovenia · CC BY 2.0Full details
Tomaj & Dutovlje · 45.755° N · 13.856° ETomaj from the valley floor, between rows of vines on red soil.

From your home

Where are you starting from?

Choose your starting city: the diagram follows the real road, with the difference from Trieste. Two questions, and the map ranks the three places that suit you.

Where are you coming from?
halfway
Your budget

Your map

First Tomaj & Dutovlje, second Sežana, third Ankaran.

  1. 86of 100
    • at a median elevation of 346 m, on the plateau
    • 5 h 15 min from Munich
  2. SežanaThe Karst
    86of 100
    • at a median elevation of 371 m, on the plateau
    • 5 h 8 min from Munich
  3. AnkaranRiviera
    84of 100
    • at a median elevation of 23 m
    • 5 h 25 min from Munich
Tell us what you want in these areas

Open the full map, with six questions

The road diagram

From Munichvia Ljubljana and the Divača junction
Route diagram from Munich: the shape is simplified, the times are measured. Dashed: Trieste, in Italy.

The three places on your map: Tomaj & Dutovlje, Sežana, Ankaran

All times: place by place, and the full table

From Munich, place by place

  1. Divača5 h 7 min–18 min compared with Trieste
  2. Sežana5 h 8 min–17 min compared with Trieste
  3. Kozina5 h 12 min–13 min compared with Trieste
  4. Tomaj & Dutovlje5 h 15 min–10 min compared with Trieste
  5. Lipica5 h 18 min–7 min compared with Trieste
  6. Ankaran5 h 25 min±0 min compared with Trieste
  7. Koper5 h 26 min+1 min compared with Trieste
  8. Izola5 h 31 min+6 min compared with Trieste
  9. Strunjan5 h 34 min+9 min compared with Trieste
  10. Portorož5 h 37 min+12 min compared with Trieste
  11. Piran5 h 44 min+19 min compared with Trieste
Open the table
Drive times from Munich
DivačaThe Karst5 h 7 min479 km–18 min
SežanaThe Karst5 h 8 min482 km–17 min
KozinaThe Karst5 h 12 min485 km–13 min
Tomaj & DutovljeThe Karst5 h 15 min488 km–10 min
LipicaThe Karst5 h 18 min487 km–7 min
AnkaranRiviera5 h 25 min506 km±0 min
KoperSeaside towns5 h 26 min507 km+1 min
IzolaSeaside towns5 h 31 min513 km+6 min
StrunjanRiviera5 h 34 min518 km+9 min
PortorožRiviera5 h 37 min520 km+12 min
PiranSeaside towns5 h 44 min523 km+19 min
Drive times: starting cities in columns, places in rows
Ankaran5 h 25 min5 h 10 min3 h 14 min4 h 6 min2 h 12 min71 min23 min78 min2 h 10 min4 h 44 min
Koper5 h 26 min5 h 11 min3 h 15 min4 h 8 min2 h 13 min72 min27 min81 min2 h 14 min4 h 47 min
Izola5 h 31 min5 h 16 min3 h 20 min4 h 13 min2 h 18 min77 min32 min86 min2 h 19 min4 h 52 min
Strunjan5 h 34 min5 h 19 min3 h 23 min4 h 16 min2 h 21 min80 min35 min89 min2 h 22 min4 h 55 min
Piran5 h 44 min5 h 29 min3 h 33 min4 h 25 min2 h 31 min1 h 30 min45 min1 h 39 min2 h 32 min5 h 5 min
Portorož5 h 37 min5 h 22 min3 h 26 min4 h 19 min2 h 24 min83 min38 min1 h 32 min2 h 25 min4 h 58 min
Sežana5 h 8 min4 h 53 min2 h 57 min3 h 49 min1 h 55 min54 min18 min60 min1 h 53 min4 h 26 min
Lipica5 h 18 min5 h 3 min3 h 7 min4 h2 h 5 min64 min23 min70 min2 h 2 min4 h 36 min
Tomaj & Dutovlje5 h 15 min5 h3 h 4 min3 h 56 min2 h 2 min61 min26 min67 min2 h4 h 33 min
Divača5 h 7 min4 h 52 min2 h 56 min3 h 48 min1 h 54 min53 min27 min68 min2 h 1 min4 h 34 min
Kozina5 h 12 min4 h 57 min3 h 1 min3 h 54 min1 h 59 min58 min25 min73 min2 h 5 min4 h 39 min
Trieste5 h 25 min5 h 10 min3 h 14 min4 h 7 min2 h 12 min71 min–65 min1 h 57 min4 h 31 min

Each city has its own page: Munich · Vienna · Graz · Salzburg · Klagenfurt · Ljubljana · Trieste · Udine · Venice · Milan

OSRM, no traffic, measured on 10 October 2026. Real driving takes longer; in summer, queues on the coast road can stretch the last leg considerably. Slovenian motorways require an e-vignette; from Trieste to the coast, since 2026, they do not.

All distances

The method

How, in Trieste, a home reaches a buyer in Munich.

Before we present a home, we study it: below, our everyday method in Trieste, on a real case. In Slovenia, at the owners' request, we have analysed five homes, three in the hills of Koper and two on the Karst.

3The hills of Koper

2The Karst

September–October 2026 · at the owners' requestIndicative areas: no addresses, no recognisable homes.

Real footage · TriesteThe case: Historic villa, Strada Costiera, on triestevillas.com TSV-PROP-0003

  1. 01

    Analysis

    Documents, land registry and nearby sales. Before we write a line we know what we are presenting, weak points included.

  2. 02

    Survey

    Photographs, floor plan and a 3D tour: the home can be visited from Munich before anyone travels.

    Open the 3D tourMatterport · loads on click
  3. 03

    Story

    Texts in four languages and a film of the home, with its limits stated.

    Watch the filmYouTube, privacy-enhanced mode · loads on click
  4. 04

    Publication

    The same listing in Italian, English, German and Slovenian, with the use of AI on the photos declared photo by photo.

  5. 05

    Private Collection

    Homes that never go on the portals reach only those who have signed up, with a personal login.

    In Trieste today: 22 private homes

Who buys

The buyers are already here, and they write from far away.

Trieste · TriesteVillas CRM, last twelve months

buyer enquiries
1,312
The other four figures
with a spending signal from €500,000 (stated budget or property enquired about)
427
from €1,000,000
169
from Austria, Germany and Switzerland
105
asked for a villa or a detached house
262

Slovenia · FURS, 2025 purchases

second-hand properties bought by foreigners
1,556
The other four figures
purchases by Germans
127
purchases by Austrians
113
purchases by Italians
95
at the Koper tax office (coast and Sežana), of which 59 by Italians, 10 by Germans and 7 by Austrians
202

The CRM requests concern homes in Trieste, not in Slovenia; nationality is known for only some of the buyers. Counted on 5 October 2026, excluding tests, duplicates and spam. FURS via Bloomberg Adria, 25 March 2026; the Koper office also covers Izola, Piran and Sežana. Across Slovenia the leading countries are Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Germany; among Western European countries, Germany and Austria.

Many of them do not yet know that Koper exists. This site shows them.

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The coast and the Karst

Postcards from the border

From the coast to the Karst. On every reworked image, the AI mark tells you which photo it started from and what changed.

Private Collection Slovenija

Looking for a home on the coast or the Karst? Tell us what you are looking for.

In the collection today: 0 homes. Listings come onto this site one at a time, once they have been checked.

In Trieste our Private Collection holds 22 private homes today, 15 of them from €1,000,000.

The Private Collection in TriesteRequest access to Trieste here, in the form

Leave us an address and the areas you care about: for homes in Slovenia the request goes to Planetum, which replies; for homes in Italy, TriesteVillas replies.

Tell us what you want: the form

This is where the reply arrives: for homes in Slovenia, Planetum writes to you. No newsletter.

For homes in Slovenia Planetum replies, in Slovenian too; for homes in Italy and for the website we reply, in Italian, English and German.

Areas of interestoptional

Choose as many as you like. Driving times from Piazza Unità, with no traffic (OSRM, 10 October 2026).

What you are looking foroptional
Budget rangeoptional

By sending, you ask us to pass your search to Planetum, the Koper agency that brokers in Slovenia: TriesteVillas srl, the controller for this site, receives it in the group's CRM and forwards it to Planetum (your name, contact details and what you are looking for), which replies, suggests homes and from then on handles the data as an independent controller. Reserved homes in Trieste only with the dedicated box. In the CRM the data may also be summarised with artificial intelligence tools; only the technical providers listed in the privacy notice process it for us. We keep it for 24 months from the last contact, then delete it; if you were already in touch with us about Trieste, it joins the record we already had and follows its time limits. You can ask us to delete it at any time. Full privacy notice

For homes in Slovenia the request goes to Planetum, which replies, suggests homes and takes you to the viewings.

The full form

The group

Behind the atlas, TriesteVillas.

The group's sites, from Lake Orta and the mountains of Sappada to Trieste. SloveniaVillas works with Planetum in Koper. It covers the Slovenian coast and the Karst, and the coast that runs on into nearby Croatia, from Istria to the Kvarner: Umag, Poreč, Opatija, Krk. The inland is not ruled out. These are today's figures, counted in our CRM and on our sites: each has its source and its date.

properties online on the group's sites
112
buyer enquiries in twelve months
1,312
viewings in twelve months, at least
463
homes with a 3D tour on the group's sites
50
Map of the northern Adriatic with the group's sites: LignanoVillas in Lignano, FriuliVillas in Friuli, TriesteVillas, TriesteImmobiliare and TriesteAffitti in Trieste, SloveniaVillas on the Slovenian coast, with Planetum in Koper. Off the map, to the north-west, SappadaVillas in Sappada, in the mountains. Coast and borders: © OpenStreetMap contributors

The group's brands from the Alps to the Adriatic

The showcase and the Private Collection, in figures

The showcase

homes on triestevillas.com
60
with a 3D tour
35
photos with an AI transparency record
1,789
languages on triestevillas.com
4

The Private Collection in Trieste

private homes
22
from €1,000,000
15
access requests since 17 June
149
active logins
54

The other brands

homes on triesteimmobiliare.com
22
rentals on triesteaffitti.com
39
rental enquiries in twelve months
813
homes on friulivillas.com
6

Sources: TriesteVillas CRM, 5 October 2026; the group's site catalogues, read from the CRM showcase on 27 October 2026; Google and YouTube, 5 October 2026. Hover over a figure to see its source.

What SloveniaVillas does, what Planetum does

What SloveniaVillas does

  • It tells the story of the places in four languages, with the use of AI disclosed
  • It receives requests and passes those about homes in Slovenia on to Planetum
  • Listings of Slovenian homes, when there are any, are published in Planetum's name and on its behalf
  • For homes in Italy there are TriesteVillas and its Private Collection

What Planetum does

  • It is the agent for homes in Slovenia, through its agents entered in the Slovenian register
  • Valuation, viewings and the agency agreement: Planetum handles them, up to the notary

Who Planetum is and why we work together: on the About page.

Who brokers what
The lagoon of the Škocjanski zatok nature reserve, on the edge of Koper, at sunset: the low sun above the port cranes, its reflection in the water, reed islets, a flock of birds in flight; backlit shrubs in the foreground, on the left the hill with the houses of Koper.
Reworked with AIColours retouched with AI; the sunset is the photograph's own. The motion in the video is generated with AI.Photo: G0DeX · CC BY 2.0Full details
Koper · 45.548° N · 13.730° EŠkocjanski zatok at sunset, with the port of Koper behind.