The Monumento a Elisabetta d’Austria was built in memory of the consort of Francesco Giuseppe of Austria and was erected soon after her death in 1898. The council placed the monument in a garden near to the railway station in 1907 and it was designed by the Viennese sculptor Franz Seifert. It is a bronze statue of the Empress with two marble figures depicting homage of the people. Not just a simple statue; Elisabetta, who was called Sissi, was loved by many of Trieste who considered her the sovereign of the city.