Piazza Trieste e Trento is a road junction of great importance, here converge Via Toledo, Via Chiaia and Via San Carlo; also is the main access point to the nearby and more famous, Piazza del Plebiscito.
The square is irregular in shape, its margins there are the Teatro San Carlo, the Royal Palace, the Palace of Cardinal Zapata and the baroque Church of San Ferdinando, incorporated in the same batch of the Galleria Umberto I.
At the center of the square is the Artichoke Fountain, built by Achille Lauro in the fifties of the twentieth century.
On the west side, on the ground floor of the building of the Prefecture, there is the famous Caffè Gambrinus, where the decoration created by some important artists active between the late nineteenth and early twentieth century is still preserved, such as Gabriele D'Annunzio and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.