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AFIM All Saints' Day Gathering 2026
The usual All Saints' Day gathering of the Association of Rijeka Italians in the World (LCFE) is approaching. Additional events will be organized by the Italian Community of Rijeka, but for now, the AFIM program is as follows: Thursday, October 29 – Arrival of participants in Rijeka. Friday, October 30. 9:00 a.m.: Aula Magna of the SMS Rijeka: Awards ceremony for the "Freeing the Imagination" competition. 11:00 a.m.: City Council Chamber – Presentation of the monograph "Rijeka, the Monumental Cemetery of Cosala. Stopping Time." Free lunch. 3:00 p.m.: Italian Community, Palazzo Modello – Inauguration of the exhibition on the monumental tombs of Cosala. Photographs by...
The Man, the Priest, the Believer: A meditative concert on the life and spirituality of Monsignor Marcello Labor
On Friday, October 16, 2026, at 18:30 PM, in the Church of the Blessed Virgin of Help in Piazza Hortis, Trieste, a meditative concert dedicated to the life and spirituality of Bishop Marcello Labor will be held. The initiative is promoted by the Friends of Marcello Labor Association, in collaboration with the National League of Trieste, and with the participation of His Excellency Bishop Giampaolo Crepaldi, Emeritus Bishop. The program will be divided into six sessions dedicated to the calling, faith, suffering, charity, hope, and spiritual legacy left by Bishop Marcello Labor. Marcello Labor (born Marcello Loewy, Trieste 1890-1954) was a physician, writer, and...
The vote denied at the eastern border
The 80th anniversary of the institutional referendum of June 2, 1946, is the central theme of the 2026 edition of "Milan is Memory." The Milan Provincial Committee of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, in collaboration with the Federation of Associations of Exiles from Istria, Fiume, and Dalmatia, contributed to this event by shedding light on a largely unknown event. Legislative Decree No. 74 of March 10, 1946, set June 2, 1946, as the date for the institutional referendum and the associated elections for the Constituent Assembly, restoring the old electoral districts, including the XII Venice district.
Osvaldo Ramous of Fiume, a literary work yet to be explored
The rediscovery of Rijeka writer Osvaldo Ramous also encompasses the papers remaining in his archives, his scattered publications in magazines, and texts that remained hard to find for decades. This is the underlying theme of the conference "Osvaldo Ramous in Trieste. His Still Unexplored Work," hosted by the LETS Museum in Trieste, where "I figli della cometa e prose sparse" (The Children of the Comet and Spare Prose) was presented, a bilingual Italian-Croatian box set edited by Gianna Mazzieri-Sanković. The volume, the fourth in a series produced by the Association of Rijeka Italians in the World, collects published and unpublished stories and continues a project to promote the literature of...
Giuliani's "Youth and Elderly Stay 2026" in the World
The "Young and Elderly Stay 2026" took place at the end of September, sponsored by the Giuliani nel Mondo Association. The goal was to allow a large group of people with roots in Trieste, Bisiaca, and Istria to return to their childhood homes or—for the younger ones—to rediscover their family roots. The 16 participants from Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Canada, South Africa, and Australia began their journey with a wonderful tour of Istria, stopping in Poreč, Rovinj, and Pula, where they visited the Arch of the Sergi, the memorial stone commemorating the victims of the Vergarolla massacre, and finally...
The Voice of Fiume [September-October 2026]
The September-October 2026 issue of La Voce di Fiume, the bimonthly magazine of the Association of Italian Fiumani in the World - LCFE, can be freely consulted online or downloaded in PDF format: https://www.lavocedifiume.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Voce_settembre_ottobre.pdf SUMMARY Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! ... Page 1 The Fiume Evenings will be inaugurated at LETS on September 30th ... 3 Fiumanità: Una, Nissuna, Zentomila… ... 4 Identity - From Switzerland with thought to Kvarner ... 5 Two periods of Fiume's history in the size of a postage stamp ... 8 Scholarships to honor history ... 10 Vergarolla: Memory, documents and history A truth yet to be...
XIII Istriot Festival: "Use this language so that it survives"
"We hope that the spirit and message of the Festival, which aims to protect, promote, and enhance the Istrian language, has come across loud and clear to families: use this language so that it survives." These were the words of Debora Moscarda Demarin, president of the Italian Community of Gallesano and member of the working group organizing the event, at the conclusion of the 13th edition of the Istrian Language Festival. The article in the Ventiquattro column in the online newspaper...
"La Bancarella" at the Barcolana 2026 Village
The Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka, and Dalmatian Culture, in collaboration with the Trieste Provincial Committee of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, is organizing La Bancarella, the Eastern Adriatic Book Fair, as part of the 58th edition of the Barcolana, the world's most popular regatta. Inside the Barcolana Village (Riva Tre Novembre - Trieste), stands 12-13 will display the latest publications from the Istrian, Rijeka, and Dalmatian exile associations and will host most of the scheduled events: book presentations and cultural project presentations, round tables, and debates on the history and...
Musical event in honor of Blessed Boniface
September 11, 1946, near Krasica, in the Istrian hinterland, near Buje. Don Francesco Bonifacio, a young priest born in Piran, is returning to his curia. It's evening; in the countryside, only a few farmers are returning from harvesting. At a crossroads, the priest, who had already received threats and intimidation, but had reiterated to the Bishop of Trieste and Koper, Antonio Santin, his firm resolve not to abandon his flock, is kidnapped by a handful of popular guards. Since June 12, 1945, the Morgan Line has divided the Julian March, disputed between Italy and Yugoslavia while awaiting the decisions of the Peace Conference. In Zone A (Trieste, Gorizia...
June 2, 1946, the vote denied at the eastern border
Legislative Decree No. 74 of March 10, 1946, set June 2 as the date for the institutional referendum and the concurrent elections for the Constituent Assembly, restoring the old electoral districts, including the XII Venezia Giulia–Rijeka–Zara district, with 13 founding fathers to be elected. However, Lieutenant Decree No. 99 of March 16, suspended elections indefinitely in Bolzano and the eastern border provinces. While it was still impossible to re-establish electoral lists in the South Tyrolean capital given the influx of German-speakers who had opted for German citizenship in 1939,...
