Entrance and staircase
Hall · spiral staircase up to the second floor
The front door opens into the hall. From here a stone spiral staircase winds up to the second floor.
Scorcola · Trieste · since 1829
Haus Lixl
A nineteenth-century villa with 4,200 square metres of grounds and a heated pool, on the hill that rises right behind central Trieste. Let as a whole, to one party only: up to twelve guests.
The villa is managed directly by its owners. TriesteAffitti takes your request and puts you in touch.
The villa
Grounds all around, the city at the foot of the hill.
Scorcola is the hill that climbs straight up behind the centre of Trieste: for two centuries the district of villas with gardens, crossed by the tracks of the tram that clambers up towards the Karst. Haus Lixl is one of those villas. It dates from 1829 and bears the name of the family who bought it in 1908.
It is let as a whole. Three floors, five bedrooms and four bathrooms; a drawing room with a Carrara marble floor, a kitchen with an island and a fireplace, a dining room for everyone. Outside, terraced grounds with century-old trees, the heated pool, two outdoor tables, the barbecue and parking. Whoever arrives has the whole villa to themselves.
Walking downhill, the station is nine minutes away and Piazza Unità d'Italia, on the sea, just over twenty; the way back is uphill. By car the centre is five minutes away and the Barcola seafront ten.
- the year of the villa
- 1829
- the year of the villa
- of terraced grounds
- 4,200 m²
- of terraced grounds
- guests in 5 bedrooms
- 12
- guests in 5 bedrooms
- out of 5 in 52 Airbnb reviews
- 4.98
- out of 5 in 52 Airbnb reviews
Real photographs of the villa animated with AI: the camera movements are generated, and where the camera reveals more than the photo, the edges are reconstructed by the model.
Step inside
The garden, the statue, the lavender.
The stained-glass door, the Venetian terrazzo hall.
And the stone staircase climbing up to the attic.
History
Almost two centuries on the hill.
The owners traced the history of the villa in the historical archives of the City of Trieste: three families before today, and a story that has been handed down.
1829
The Koller family builds the villa
The Kollers own the land on Scorcola hill, then the first elegant suburb of the city, and build a three-storey house there among the greenery.
19th century
It passes to the Bergera family
The archive records the transfer of the property to the Bergera family.
1908
It becomes Haus Lixl
The Lixl family buys it and leaves it the name it still goes by today.
1908–1920
the story goesJames Joyce under the horse chestnut
Joyce lived in Trieste until 1915, and again between 1919 and 1920. The story goes that he would call on the Lixls on summer afternoons, in the shade of the great horse chestnut that still stands by the entrance.
2008–2016
The restoration
Today's owners buy the villa in 2008 and restore it over eight years: the period furniture stays, and contemporary art moves in beside it.
Today
A house to live in for a few days
Since 2017 it has welcomed families and groups of friends from across the world: 52 reviews on Airbnb, averaging 4.98 out of 5.
Dates and families come from the owners' research in the archives of the City of Trieste. Joyce's visits are a family story: we know of no written evidence.
Floor by floor
Life happens on the ground floor; sleep happens upstairs.
These are the plans published by the owners. Choose a floor and a room: its card opens with a photo.
The entrance with the spiral staircase, the drawing room, the kitchen with the dining room, and a bathroom.
Schematic plans published by the owners, not to scale; some bathrooms were rebuilt during the restoration and may not match the drawing. Room sizes are those stated by the owners.
Scorcola
A whole park, above the centre of Trieste.
The grounds and the pool
One more room, outdoors.
The grounds step down in terraces over 4,200 square metres, among century-old trees, fruit trees, lawns, lavender, pomegranates and oleanders. From the terraces the view falls away over the city, as far as the castle of San Giusto.
The pool is heated and open from 15 April to 15 October. Around it, sun loungers and a parasol; further on the barbecue, the fire pit, the hammock and two outdoor tables, one under the tree in front of the house.
- Heated pool, 15 April to 15 October
- Private garden, fully fenced
- Barbecue and fire pit
- Two outdoor dining areas
- Hammock and sun loungers
- Private parking on the property
- Electric-car charging point
- Cot for little ones
Real photographs of the villa animated with AI: the camera movements are generated, and where the camera reveals more than the photo, the edges are reconstructed by the model.
The film
The villa, in motion
The villa's own photographs, set in motion: the grounds, the pool, the rooms, an evening in the garden.
Real photographs of the villa animated with AI: the camera movements are generated, and where the camera reveals more than the photo, the edges are reconstructed by the model.
Late afternoon
The table under the tree, as the light turns warm.
Evenings
When the candles are lit in the garden.
Summer evenings are spent outside: the table laid under the trees, candles, the barbecue fire. These are real photographs of the villa, in the evening.
Who it suits
A big house, for people who travel together.
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Families, even three generations
Five bedrooms over three floors, a dining room for everyone, fenced grounds and a pool for the children. Among the reviews are families of up to eleven, with grandparents and grandchildren under one roof.
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Friends who want a whole house
No neighbours down the corridor and no timetables: breakfast in the garden, the barbecue at night, the city within walking distance. For a week the villa is yours.
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Work, teams and longer stays
A base for a team, a business trip with guests to host, a relocation of a few months. For long stays and for companies the owners decide case by case: tell us your dates and how many you are.
Two seasons
A holiday home in summer, a home for a few months in winter.
Haus Lixl alternates between two ways of living in it. The dates are approximate: the owners assess every request case by case, with its own quote.
High season · from Easter to the Barcolana, roughly
Short stays
The villa is a holiday let: a few nights or a few weeks, for a family or a group of friends, with the grounds and the pool open.
Low season · from after the Barcolana to Easter, roughly
Temporary leases
For anyone staying in Trieste for a few months — a work assignment, a relocation, a home to wait for — the villa is let on a temporary lease.
Price on request, in both seasons: the owners prepare the quote, based on dates, length of stay and number of people.
More than the keys
Behind the villa there is someone who knows it.
On arrival the person who runs the villa welcomes you in person and shows you round, room by room. During your stay they remain on hand: a restaurant to book, a taxi from the airport, a day trip to arrange.
Guests mention it in 33 reviews out of 52; two describe the evening a chef cooked a Triestine dinner in the house for the whole family.
- A personal welcome on arrival
- Concierge service, included in the stay
- Tips on restaurants, markets and day trips
- A dinner cooked in the house by a chef, on request
- Bed linen, towels and toiletries
- Equipped kitchen, dishwasher and washing machine
Services stated by the owners in their listing and described by guests. Those on request are agreed with the owners, with the quote.
Guests
Fifty-two stays, an average of 4.98.
4.98out of 5
The average of the villa's 52 reviews on Airbnb, read on 12 November 2026: 51 are five-star, one is four-star. How we read these figures
On Airbnb the villa carries the «Guest favourite» distinction, which the platform gives, in its own words, to «one of the most loved homes» based on ratings, reviews and reliability.
Scores by category, from 1 to 5
- Cleanliness
- 5.0
- Accuracy
- 5.0
- Check-in
- 5.0
- Communication
- 5.0
- Location
- 4.9
- Value
- 4.8
What the 52 reviews talk about
These are not scores: next to each topic, how many reviews mention it, for better or worse.
- The person who runs the villa: welcome and availability33 reviews
- The garden and the grounds25 reviews
- The pool23 reviews
- Tips and help: restaurants, taxis, day trips21 reviews
- The location, close to the centre14 reviews
- Families and children14 reviews
- The space, inside and out13 reviews
- The quiet10 reviews
- The hill: the villa sits uphill from the city6 reviews
- The price, found high1 review
Every review with a comment from the last 24 months
We read the score, the sub-scores and the excerpts ourselves on the villa's Airbnb listing on 12 November 2026. We do not collect the reviews: Airbnb collects and publishes them, and accepts them only from guests of a booking made on the platform, within 14 days of check-out; we do not check individual stays. The average (4.98 out of 5, 52 reviews) and the sub-scores are calculated by Airbnb with its own method and may change after the date given. We show, without choosing them for their content, all four reviews with a comment published in the last 24 months. We counted the themes ourselves, automatically, across all 52 reviews (June 2017 to June 2026): a review counts if it mentions the theme, positively or negatively. Excerpts are cuts from the original text, marked «[…]»; translations are ours. No review was paid for, solicited or rewarded by us. This page is not affiliated with or endorsed by Airbnb.
Location
On the hill, just above the centre.
Haus Lixl sits halfway up Scorcola hill, above the central station: the district where Trieste built its first villas with gardens, still quiet and right next to the city. In 1902 the tram that climbs to the Karst plateau set off from here, and its stop is ninety metres from the gate.
Walking downhill you reach the station in 9 minutes, the Grand Canal in 15 and Piazza Unità d'Italia in 22. The way back is uphill: several guests say so in their reviews, and some come back by taxi or car.
Via Virgilio 3, 34134 Trieste Open in Google Maps ↗
On foot from the villa, downhill
- Pharmacy4 min · 0.3 km
- Café and pizzeria in Piazza Casali6 min · 0.4 km
- Bakery7 min · 0.5 km
- Supermarket8 min · 0.6 km
- Central station9 min · 0.7 km
- Grand Canal and the Joyce statue15 min · 1.1 km
- Caffè San Marco18 min · 1.3 km
- Teatro Verdi20 min · 1.5 km
- Piazza Unità d'Italia and Molo Audace22 min · 1.6 km
- San Giusto castle25 min · 1.9 km
- 5 minPiazza Unità
- 9 minBarcola
- 16 minMiramare
- 16 minGrotta Gigante
- 16 minVal Rosandra
- 39 minTrieste airport
- 48 minPiran
- 73 minLjubljana
- 107 minTop Hill Cottage
- 116 minVenice
Getting around
On foot
The centre is downhill: 15 to 25 minutes to the Grand Canal, Piazza Unità and San Giusto. Pharmacy, café, bakery and supermarket are 4 to 8 minutes away.
By tram
The Opicina tram (line 2), running in November 2026, stops at Sant'Anastasio, a minute from the gate, every 28 minutes between 7.22 am and 8.26 pm. Downhill it reaches the temporary terminus in Piazza Dalmazia, near the centre; uphill it takes you to Opicina. Another closure for works was planned for 2027: before counting on it, check the Trieste Trasporti service notices.
By bus
From Via Commerciale, 4 minutes away, bus 28 (30 in the evening and on holidays) runs down to the centre and the 64 up to Opicina; from Via Cantù, 6 minutes away, there is the 14. From the station, 9 minutes away, the 6 goes to Barcola and Miramare and the 44 to Sistiana and Duino.
By car and from the airport
The villa has parking within the property, with a charging point. Trieste airport is about 40 minutes away, Ljubljana 75, Venice under two hours. The streets on the hill are narrow, but one guest reports arriving in a large SUV.
Times calculated on 12 November 2026 with OSRM on OpenStreetMap data, from the gate at Via Virgilio 3: on foot at 5 km/h, without allowing for the climb (the way back takes longer); by car without traffic.
Trieste from here
A city of sea, coffee houses and Karst.
Central Europe and the Adriatic in one city: the centre is walkable, and the sea and the Karst plateau are a quarter of an hour away by car.
Piazza Unità and Molo Audace
22 minutes on foot
The great square open to the sea, and the pier where people watch the sun set over the gulf in the evening.
The historic coffee houses
18 minutes on foot
San Marco, opened in 1914, Tommaseo, Torinese: the Trieste of Svevo, Saba and Joyce runs through its cafés.
Barcola
9 minutes by car
The seafront where Trieste goes for a swim, from the Topolini to the pine wood.
Miramare castle
16 minutes by car
The white castle Maximilian of Habsburg had built on the sea, with its park.
Grotta Gigante
16 minutes by car
One of the great caves of the Karst open to visitors, a few minutes from the city.
The Karst and its osmize
10 minutes by car to Opicina
On the plateau, farmers open their osmize for a few days a year: home-made wine, cured meats and cheese.
The Strada Napoleonica
10 minutes by car
The walk along the cliff above the gulf, from the Obelisk at Opicina towards Prosecco.
Duino and the Rilke Trail
30 minutes by car
The castle on the sea and the clifftop path named after the poet.
Piran, Ljubljana, Venice
from 48 minutes to under two hours
Three day trips: Piran 48 minutes by car, Ljubljana 73, Venice under two hours.
City or mountains?
Two villas for a group, in two opposite landscapes.
We also present Top Hill Cottage, a house for twelve in Carnia, in the mountains of Friuli. The same kind of holiday — a whole house for a large family or a group — and two different worlds: here the city and the sea, there the woods and the valley. The two are 135 kilometres apart, a little under two hours by car.
Haus Lixl
Scorcola · Trieste
- Landscape
- The city and the sea, on Scorcola hill
- Guests
- Up to 12
- Bedrooms
- 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms
- Outside
- 4,200 m² of terraced grounds
- Pool
- Heated, 15 April to 15 October
- The city
- The centre in 15–25 minutes, downhill
- Trieste airport
- About 40 minutes by car
Top Hill Cottage
Viaso · Carnia
- Landscape
- Meadows and woods above the Tagliamento valley, at 525 m
- Guests
- Up to 12
- Bedrooms
- Bedrooms under the beams, each with its own bathroom
- Outside
- 12,000 m² of meadow and trees
- Pool
- Above-ground, in summer
- The city
- The village of Viaso; Tolmezzo about twenty minutes by car
- Trieste airport
- Under an hour and a half by car
How it works
The villa belongs to its owners. We open the door for you.
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You write to us
Your dates, how many you are, the kind of stay you have in mind: through the form below, by phone or by email.
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We get back to you
Someone from our office calls you back, checks the dates with the owners and, if you agree, puts you in touch.
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Quote and contract with the owners
The villa is managed directly by its owners: they make the quote and the contract, and they welcome you on arrival.
TriesteAffitti does not manage the villa and does not collect payments for the stay. If a fee for our service applied in your case, we would tell you beforehand, in writing.
Dates and quote
When are you coming?
Tell us your dates, how many you are and the stay you have in mind. Free dates and the price are confirmed by the owners; we reply and put you in touch. We are already collecting requests for spring and summer 2027.
Quote on request.
Would you rather talk it through? +39 339 3569404 · richieste@triesteaffitti.com
Questions
What people ask us about Haus Lixl.
How many people can Haus Lixl sleep?
Up to 12 overnight guests (infants are not counted), in 5 bedrooms: four with a double bed — the two attic rooms also have a sofa bed — and one with two single beds. There are four bathrooms.
Is the pool heated? When is it open?
Yes, it is heated. The pool season runs from 15 April to 15 October.
How far is the centre of Trieste?
On foot, downhill, the station is 9 minutes away, the Grand Canal 15 and Piazza Unità d'Italia 22; the way back is uphill. By car the centre is about 5 minutes away. The Opicina tram, running in November 2026, stops a minute from the gate.
Is there parking?
Yes, within the property, with a charging point for electric cars.
Can it be rented for a month or more, including by a company?
Yes: the owners consider long stays and company requests case by case. Tell us your dates and how many people will be staying.
Who runs the villa?
The owners, directly: the quote, the contract and the welcome are theirs. TriesteAffitti presents the villa, takes your request and puts you in touch.
How much does it cost?
The price is set by the owners and depends on dates, length of stay and number of guests: ask for a quote through the form. The City of Trieste tourist tax is paid separately.
Can we bring pets, or hold a party?
No: the house rules allow neither pets nor parties or events.
Can the villa be rented for a few months?
Yes, in low season: from after the Barcolana until about Easter, the owners let the villa on temporary leases. In high season it is let for short stays. The dates are approximate: tell us the period and how many you are, and the owners will assess your case and send a quote.
Good to know
- Up to 12 overnight guests; infants are not counted.
- Check-in 3 pm to 11 pm, check-out by 10 am (the rules of the owners' listing).
- No pets, no smoking, no parties or events.
- Heated pool open from 15 April to 15 October.
- The City of Trieste tourist tax is paid separately.
- Quote on request: the price depends on dates, length of stay and number of guests.
CIN (Italian national identification code): IT032006C2LI7ZF7ETVia Virgilio 3 · Trieste (TS)
Page published by TriesteAffitti — TriesteVillas srl, tax and VAT no. 01235580329 — which is neither the landlord nor the manager of the villa and does not collect payments for the stay. Availability, price and conditions are confirmed by the owners, with whom any contract is concluded.
The videos on this page are photographs of the villa animated with artificial intelligence: the camera movements are generated, and where the camera reveals more than the photo showed, the edges are reconstructed by the model. The rooms are the ones in the photos.