This life-size bronze statue on the Ponte Rosso (Red Bridge) over the Canal Grande captures Joyce mid-stride, walking stick in hand, in the city where he spent some of his most productive years. Joyce arrived in Trieste in 1904 with Nora Barnacle and — apart from wartime interruptions — stayed until 1920. Much of Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and the early drafts of Ulysses were written here.
The statue, by sculptor Marcello Mascherini, has become a natural gathering point for literary tourists. The surrounding neighbourhood still has the atmosphere of the bourgeois city Joyce would have known — the Canal Grande itself was modelled on a Venetian original, and the coffee houses nearby retain their Mitteleuropean character.