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Pula Arena January 2026
Dear AIPI LCPE Odv members and friends, dear readers of L'Arena di Pola, as is customary, there has been a shift between two calendars and in our lives. The greeting featured on the cover—and certainly meant to be expressed from the heart—has been summarized in a trilogy of images, depicting the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the new year, the message from our President of the Republic, and the closing of the Jubilee of Hope. HOPE, which, in this symbolic change of date, each of us surely strengthens in our thoughts, confident that we will not be disappointed. We also discuss it in the pages of this issue of L'ARENA DI POLA, whose summary, as always, collects notes and news,...
“Tanto lontana terra” a musical painting dedicated to the Exodus
"Tanto Lontana Terra" is a dramatic musical composition composed of 16 pieces in which the alternation between spoken and sung voice is punctuated by silences and bursts of sound performed by a string quartet (two violins, viola, and cello) and piano. The composition by Trieste-born Maestro Marco Podda—a musician, conductor, and composer with an international career—was successfully premiered in 2023. At the Teatro Stabile del Friuli Venezia Giulia, the performance of "Tanto lontana terra" represents a poetic and moving way to keep alive the memory of the exodus on Remembrance Day and reflect on the fundamental theme of overcoming borders...
The Key. Foibe, the Edge of Memory
Federico D'Addato's short novel, The Key. Foibe, the Border of Memory, opens in a tidy two-room apartment, where the life of a man, an elderly Julian-Dalmatian exile, unfolds between the routine of the workshop and the burden of a memory that has never found peace. The news of Tito's death shakes him. He feels "indebted" to those who never returned, a survivor carrying a rusty key in his pocket that no longer opens anything except the memories of a home violently torn apart. Driven by a friend's words about the need to listen to one's conscience and the need for truth, the protagonist embarks on a physical and spiritual journey toward...
The Treaty of Osimo in the press of the time
The Treaty of Osimo (November 10, 1975) is the focus of the volume "Osimo in the Press," edited by Eufemia Giuliana Budicin and published as part of a project developed by the Rome Committee of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia. The project was presented to students at the "Gian Rinaldo Carli" Gymnasium and the "Pietro Coppo" Middle School. In addition to the curator, the initiative was introduced by historian Kristjan Knez and two subject matter experts, Donatella Schürzel and Davide Rossi. The Radio...
The Risiera di San Sabba in Trieste
The Risiera di San Sabba in Trieste was the only Nazi concentration camp in Italy equipped with a crematorium. It functioned as a "mixed" camp, that is, a collection center for the deportation of Jews to Auschwitz and other extermination camps. Therefore, it served primarily as a transit camp, but it also functioned as a detention and police camp for the imprisonment, torture, and elimination of Resistance fighters, captured partisans, and civilian hostages. For this latter purpose, the camp was also equipped with a crematorium for the incineration of the victims' bodies, obtained by converting the previous facility.
Trieste and Memory
"I will never forget all this, even if I were condemned to live as long as God himself. Never." The final line of the poem "Never Forget" by Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, forcefully recalls the duty of remembrance. On the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Teatro Stabile del Friuli Venezia Giulia presents Trieste and Memory – A Journey into the City, a project curated by Paolo Valerio with dramaturgy by Paola Pini. An itinerary through symbolic places and historical testimonies, performed by Emanuele Fortunati, Ester Galazzi, Riccardo Maranzana, Francesco Migliaccio, Jacopo Morra, and Maria Grazia Plos. Tuesday, January 27,...
Bernardo Benussi between Rovinj, Koper and Trieste
Trieste's Caffè San Marco, as part of the cultural association "Manlio Cecovinhi International Society for the Dissemination of Historical, Social, and Ethical Studies," hosted a meeting on the history and culture of the eastern Adriatic, focusing on Bernardo Benussi, one of the leading scholars of Istria between the 19th and 20th centuries. Historian Kristjan Knez spoke about the Istrian scholar: the Radio report...
Fameia Capodistriana moves to the National League
No "Family" remains in the Istrian exiles' headquarters. The transfer of the Koper and Rovinj families to the National League is due, according to an official statement, to what is described as a "huge increase" in the rent charged by the Union of Istrians to its member associations. The online newspaper's report Trieste Before:
https://www.triesteprima.it/cronaca/unione-istriani-capodistria.html
A seminar for teachers preparatory to the Journeys of Remembrance was held in Naples.
The training seminar, organized by the Ministry of Education and Merit and the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Rijeka, and Dalmatian Exiles, was held on January 21-22, 2026, at the prestigious Università Orientale in Naples. The seminar was dedicated to teachers from central and southern Italy interested in participating in the Journeys of Remembrance funded by the Ministry of Education. The Neapolitan capital was also affected by the Julian-Dalmatian Exodus, which affected 350.000 Istrian, Rijeka, and Dalmatian exiles (90% of the native Italian community in the eastern Adriatic, plus a portion of Slovenians and Croats opposed to Tito's nascent Yugoslav communist dictatorship), scattered across over 100...
Thesis Award in Memory of Giuseppe Parlato
The Rotary Club of Verona Est and the Ugo Spirito and Renzo De Felice Foundation – ETS are announcing a competition for a bachelor's or master's thesis in memory of Professor Giuseppe Parlato. The prize is awarded to a thesis whose topic relates to the historical and political knowledge of northeastern Italy from the Risorgimento to the present day. The prize is €1.500,00 (one thousand five hundred and #) gross. The application and related documentation must be received no later than 13:00 PM, July 15, 2026, by email to segreteria@fondazionespirito.it, attaching the...
