But one partition in the north-eastern Adriatic port still stands proud: the white wall that divides men and women at the Bagno Alla Lanterna and makes it, according to locals, Europe's last gender-separated beach club. The Bagno, known to locals as "El Pedocin," was founded in 1903 when Trieste was under Austro-Hungarian rule. Men and women were originally kept apart by a fence, eventually replaced by a wall. "Women love this place because it gives them privacy," Micol Brusaferro, a journalist who has written two books about the Pedocin, told dpa. One of them, 25-year-old woman Francesca Azzarelli, joked that "when you separate men and women, sometimes you bring out the worst in them."

Source: The China Post July 16, 2017 02:48 UTC