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La Bancarella is back at the International Book Fair
This year, the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, together with the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka, and Dalmatian Culture, has organized, in collaboration with FederEsuli, La Bancarella. Salone del Libro dell'Adriatico Orientale (The Bank. Eastern Adriatic Book Fair) in the prestigious setting of the Turin International Book Fair. The stand in the Oval Pavilion showcases not only the book production of the main associations of Istrian, Rijeka, and Dalmatian exiles, but also presents the Exhibition of Dalmatian Exiles from Istria and Rijeka (MEDIF) with a summary of the multimedia installation created inside the Vittoriano.
Cesare Dell'Acqua, a painter yet to be discovered
A meeting was held at Casa Tartini in Piran dedicated to Cesare Dell'Acqua, one of the most fascinating and under-celebrated painters of the 19th-century Adriatic. The occasion was the presentation of the "2025 Complements" to the General Catalogue compiled by Flavio Tossi in 2021. The author, welcomed by Andrea Bartole, president of the Piran National Art Council, conversed with Kristjan Knez, retracing twenty years of research, discoveries, and a few strokes of luck. Cesare Dell'Acqua was born in Piran in 1821, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, lived most of his life in Brussels, and worked for wealthy and noble patrons. The article continues on the website...
“Oh dear land of mine” interviews with Italians from Pola, Dignano, Gallesano and Valle
The project "Oh dear land of mine" by the Association of Italians of Pula and Istria - Free Municipality of Pula in Exile was born from the development of the book "Forgotten Exoduses, People of Dignano Who Go" by Maria Grazia Belci, who collected, through live recordings and images, the testimonies of exiles and citizens of Italian descent living in Pula and its surrounding area. Forty-four interviews were conducted, providing a significant glimpse into life before and after the events of World War II in the communities of Pula, Dignano, Gallesano, and Valle. The central theme is the exodus, with all its historical and human implications. Alongside this,...
The 2026 Dalmatian Gathering will take place in Zadar
Newsletter Il Dalmata n. 29 - 2026 2026 GATHERING IN ZADAR The die is cast… Here your nobility will be displayed… Last April 17, the Board of Directors of our Association unanimously decided to organize the 72nd Gathering of Italian Dalmatians in Zadar, combining the traditional Gathering with the trip on All Souls' Day. The tentative dates will be from October 29 to November 2-3, 2026. This is a decision and an opportunity that we are communicating well in advance so that everyone is informed in time. We have started working on the travel arrangements, accommodations in the city, and plans for the days spent in Zadar, and finalizing the...
XXIV International Literary Competition Mailing List Histria
The Mailing List Histria, established to preserve and protect the cultural identity of Istria, Rijeka, Kvarner, and Dalmatia, with its Italian character, in keeping with the multiethnic spirit of our times and independent of any political affiliation, intends to promote collaborative relationships with ALL institutions and organizations operating in the Istria, Rijeka, Kvarner, and Dalmatia regions, currently divided between the nation states of Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, and Montenegro, with the aim of studying, preserving, and developing the specific cultural identity of the aforementioned regional territories. ML Histria, aware of the unavoidable reality that...
Fragments of history from the Adriatic border in a Radio24 podcast
"Far East" is the title of the Radio 24 podcast Matteo Caccia racconta, which aired on April 29th and is available for free online. It focuses on the exodus from Zadar and the border changes in Istria: https://www.radio24.ilsole24ore.com/programmi/storie-di-rinascita/puntata/trasmissione-29-aprile-2026-150500-2326811797815333 An escape in the night, from Zadar to Trieste, aboard a steamship filled with fear, silence, and hope. It's the story of a boy just over 13 who lives through the war alone, amidst bombings, air raids, and the fear of never seeing his family again. In the second story, we stay on that same borderland with the story of a...
“La Bancarella” returns to the Turin International Book Fair
The National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, together with the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka, and Dalmatian Culture, in collaboration with the Federation of Istrian, Rijeka, and Dalmatian Exile Associations, and coordinated by Engineer Mauro Runco, is once again organizing "La Bancarella. Eastern Adriatic Book Fair" as part of the Turin International Book Fair. The 38th edition of this prestigious book fair will be held at Lingotto Fiere from May 14th to 18th. La Bancarella, which will highlight the history, culture, and future prospects of Adriatic Italianness, will be...
Face to face with Abdon Pamich the walker
The prime-time drama series "The Walker. The True Story of Abdon Pamich" aired on Rai 1 on February 10th was inspired by the book that Pamich had previously co-written with Roberto Covaz for Biblioteca dell'Immagine, Memoirs of a Walker. Drawing on this work, the Padua Provincial Committee of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, in collaboration with the Association of Rijeka Italians in the World and with the patronage of the Municipality of Padua, organized the meeting "Face to Face with Abdon Pamich the Walker" on Friday, March 27th in the Sala Paladin of Palazzo Moroni. The meeting featured Pamich (a Rijeka exile,...
The new Julian Voice of May 2026
The May 2026 issue of La nuova Voce Giuliana, the monthly magazine of the Association of Istrian Communities, can be freely consulted online or downloaded in PDF format: https://www.arcipelagoadriatico.it/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/LNVG-498_MAGGIO-2026.pdf Editor Antonio Schiavulli's blurb: Faced with wars and massacres justified by the idolatry of power and a God "enlisted" to kill innocents, Pope Leo addressed those in the world who desire, pray for, and build peace. He did so on April 11, 2026, during the Vigil convened to call for an end to conflicts. The words of the Pontiff, who has made peace the center of his...
The Italian tombs in the Zadar cemetery
On April 13, before attending the inauguration ceremony of the "Girolamo Luxardo" Italian Community—or, more precisely, its installation in the spaces owned by the Italian Union within the Palazzo Borelli in Zadar's historic center—the Italian Ambassador to Croatia, Paolo Trichilo, visited the city cemetery together with the Honorary President of the Association of Dalmatian Italians in the World and Zadar exile Antonio Concina. The history of the site was illustrated by officials from the Zadar Section of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, operating under the Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media, Damira Tolić and...
