The Trieste Maritime Museum presents this exhibition, curated by naval historian Maurizio Eliseo, which explores the history of ocean liners Conte Rosso (1922), Conte Verde (1923), Conte Biancamano (1925), and Conte Grande (1928).
The event marks the 100th anniversary of the delivery of the Conte Biancamano to the Lloyd Sabaudo shipping company — a milestone in the history of Italian maritime transport and shipbuilding. It was the last large Italian liner to be constructed abroad. That same year, its sister ship, the Conte Grande, was commissioned from the San Marco shipyard in Trieste, signaling the beginning of the city’s important shipbuilding tradition.

After their early years serving transatlantic routes to North and South America, three of the “Conti” liners were reassigned in the 1930s to Lloyd Triestino’s fast route to the Far East, before each met a different fate during the Second World War.