Muggia
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Muggia (Venetian: Muja, Friulian: Mugle, German: Mulgs , Slovene: Milje) is an Italian town and comune in the extreme south-east of the Province of Trieste in the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia on the border with Slovenia. Lying on the eastern flank of the Gulf of Trieste in the northern Adriatic Sea, Muggia is the only Italian port town in Istria. The town's architecture is marked by its Venetien and Austrian history, and its harbour hosts a modern 500-berth marina for yachts (Porto San Rocco).Muggia rests on the last stretch of the Istria peninsula still within Italian territory, after the dissolution of the Free Territory of Trieste in 1954 had ceded the bulk of Istria to Yugoslavia (today divided between Slovenia and Croatia). Its territory, limited on the sea-side by a shoreline of more than 7 kilometres (4 mi) featuring a coastal road and on the border side by a hill system, Monti di Muggia, including Mt. Castellier, Mt. S. Michele, Mt. Zuc and Monte d'Oro, that dominate over a vast landscape of Italian and Istrian coast, is characterized by a rich sub-continental vegetation of both Carsic and Istrian type.
It has a border crossing, known as San Bartolomeo, with Slovenia and the extreme west of the comune at Lazaretto. The Slovenian border crossing is called Lazaret in Koper municipality.
