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Journey into Istrian Roots: An Extraordinary Day from Piemonte to Castagna
Step by step to conquer a concept. The Rogations in Istria, on April 25, are an ancient tradition, in these days people prayed in the churches and chapels outside the walls so that divine blessing would free the fields and the sea from lightning and storms. Outings along paths on the mainland and towards the islands with boats in the seaside towns involved everyone, in a propitiatory celebration for the crops and fishing. What prayer unites about seventy people” - mostly from Muggia but also from Venice, Bologna, Trieste - marching from Piedmont of Istria towards Castagna and back on this special day? A necessary premise: the area concerned is far from...
Together with Kastav on May 4th
Step by step to conquer a concept. The Rogations in Istria, on April 25, are an ancient tradition, in these days people prayed in the churches and chapels outside the walls so that divine blessing would free the fields and the sea from lightning and storms. Outings along paths on the mainland and towards the islands with boats in the seaside towns involved everyone, in a propitiatory celebration for the crops and fishing. What prayer unites about seventy people” - mostly from Muggia but also from Venice, Bologna, Trieste - marching from Piedmont of Istria towards Castagna and back on this special day? A necessary premise: the area concerned is far from...
In Servigliano a House of Memory also dedicated to the Julian-Dalmatians
The conference also featured the contribution of the Società di Studi Fiumani With a solemn ceremony, the Municipality of Servigliano inaugurated the “Casa della Memoria” in the perfectly restored old station, a new audiovisual and educational center, where the stories of prisoners of war, Jews present in the area during the Nazi persecutions and Julian-Dalmatian refugees found their place. An emotional moment attended by more than three hundred people (including students from Servigliano schools) who followed with heartfelt participation the speeches of the mayor of Servigliano Maurizio Marinozzi, the prefect of Fermo Emilia Zarrilli, the Archbishop of Fermo Mons....
In Servigliano a House of Memory also dedicated to the Julian-Dalmatians
The conference also featured the contribution of the Società di Studi Fiumani With a solemn ceremony, the Municipality of Servigliano inaugurated the “Casa della Memoria” in the perfectly restored old station, a new audiovisual and educational center, where the stories of prisoners of war, Jews present in the area during the Nazi persecutions and Julian-Dalmatian refugees found their place. An emotional moment attended by more than three hundred people (including students from Servigliano schools) who followed with heartfelt participation the speeches of the mayor of Servigliano Maurizio Marinozzi, the prefect of Fermo Emilia Zarrilli, the Archbishop of Fermo Mons....
Minority: Italianness maintained day after day
Gloria Nemec's book, published by CRS in the ETNIA series, has been presented There are many ways to feel Italian. Anyone born in Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia knows this well, anyone who deals every day with the individual and collective history that led a people, with the exodus, to choose to go or become a minority in a land where it had never been before over the course of many centuries. Stories to tell, now collected in a volume entitled "Birth of a minority. Istria 1947-1965: history and memory of the Italians who remained in the Istrian-Quarnerina area", the XIV volume of the Etnia series of the Historical Research Centre of Rovinj, a work by the scholar from the University of Trieste, Gloria...
Monday Quarantotti Gambini at Revoltella
The IRCI – Regional Institute for Istrian-Fiuman-Dalmatian Culture, in collaboration with the Revoltella Museum, is organizing the presentation of Daniela Picamus' book PIER ANTONIO QUARANTOTTI GAMBINI The writer and his editors for Monday 29 April, at 17.00:27 p.m., in the auditorium of the Revoltella Museum in via Diaz n.XNUMX in Trieste. Cesare De Michelis (Marsilio Editori), Cristina Benussi (University of Trieste) and Alessandro Mezzena Lona (Il Piccolo) will talk about it. The Author will be present.
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The swearing-in of re-elected President Giorgio Napolitano
Message and oath before the Chambers of the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano Hall of the Chamber of Deputies, 22/04/2013 Madam President, honorable deputies, honorable senators, delegates of the Regions, let me first of all express - together with a tribute that comes to me from very far away to the institutions that you represent - the gratitude that I owe you for having elected me President of the Republic with such a large vote. It is a sign of renewed trust that I accept understanding its meaning, even if it seriously tests my strength: and I particularly appreciate that it has come to me from so many new members of Parliament, who belong...
Napolitano's election: FederEsuli expresses its joy
FederEsuli's immediate reaction to the news of Giorgio Napolitano's reconfirmation as President of the Republic. A note, signed by Lucio Toth, highlights the emotion and admiration with which the acceptance of the candidacy and the subsequent vote were received. "He gave us - writes Toh, in a statement shared with the Federation's leaders - a great proof of love for this country and our democracy, freeing us from a nightmare that threatened a path of civil development of over half a century. I see that this event has raised the hopes of all of Europe and our friends across the Atlantic for the fate of the West and its...
The Croatian ambassador in Rome prof. Damir GrubiŠa
Visit the Historical Archive-Museum of Rijeka of the Society of Fiumani Studies Rome - Prof. Damir GrubiŠa, the new Croatian Ambassador to Italy, visited the Historical Archive-Museum of Rijeka based in Rome on 9 April 2013, together with the cultural attaché of the embassy Ines Sprem. The Ambassador was welcomed by the leaders of the Society of Fiumani Studies: the President Amleto Ballarini, the Secretary General Dr. Marino Micich and the advisors Abdon Pamich, Massimo Gustincich, Emiliano Loria and Prof. Laura Chiarappa. The writer Diego Zandel also took part in the meeting. Ambassador GrubiŠa is a native of Rijeka and wanted to visit the Centre for Fiumani Studies, of which...
The Museum of Istrian Civilization is not a historical “fake”
Chiara Vigini's response Chiara Vigini, President of IRCI, responds to the allegations recently advanced by a group of historians known for their denialist attitudes, who contest the reality of the Civic Museum of via Torino with old-fashioned arguments. Some considerations, necessary to nip in the bud the recent controversies regarding the Civic Museum of Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian Civilization. An article by Fabio Dorigo appeared in the Piccolo newspaper, in which he makes known a position taken by historians and intellectuals from Trieste and other cities in Italy, against the “false” Museum of Istrian Civilization. Considering the Museum of Civilization “false”...
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