Grand Hotel Kanwall

• Prize
  Gold in Press/Political
• Photographer
  Luca Greco , Italy
• Date of Photograph
  17/05/1979

Trieste is not only the city of the "Barcolana", of Svevo and Joyce, of the Racial Laws. It is also one of the landing points of the so-called Balkan Route. It is also the city of Silos, of Kandwalla. Kandwalla is nothing more than a huge, now abandoned warehouse where goods were stored since the second half of the 1800s. And later, people. For months, it was inhabited by migrants who had arrived in Trieste after crossing half of Asia and half of Europe. At times, it provided refuge and shelter to over 500 people, who lived in inhumane conditions. With the connivance of the state.