San Giovanni al Timavo

Beyond Duino the village of San Giovanni al Timavo (4m/13ft) has a 15th century Gothic church, San Giovanni in Tuba, containing the remains of a mosaic pavement belonging to an earlier basilica of the fifth-sixth centuries. At San Giovanni the River Timavo, with an abundant flow of water, emerges after an underground course of 40km/25mi from the caves of Skocjan in the former Yugoslavia, and soon afterwards flows into the sea.