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Online “La Voce di Fiume” September/October 2024
The September/October 2024 issue of La Voce di Fiume, the bimonthly magazine of the Association of Italian Fiumani in the World - Free Municipality of Fiume in Exile, can be freely consulted online or downloaded in PDF format: http://www.lavocedifiume.com/settembre_ottobre-2024-2/ In this issue, there is ample space for the gathering that is taking place these days in the capital of Carnaro with its many cultural initiatives and the renewal of social positions. SUMMARY We are the symbols - let's treat them with respect!...page .... 1 So let's talk about it "No more borders" on October 29th in Fiume..." ......... 3 Program of the 61st Gathering of the Association of Italian Fiumani in the...
A Philatelic Look at the Allied Military Government in Trieste
The Postal Museum of Trieste (Piazza Vittorio Veneto, 1) hosts a new exhibition entitled "The period of the Allied Military Government in the stamps and overprints of the Free Territory of Trieste". The exhibition curated by Poste Italiane can be visited from 25 October to 22 November 2024 from Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 13:00 https://youtu.be/bDpvQLJb_1U?si=DSa7ctQyXNbjIRQf
The Rai Cultura special “Trieste 70!”
The institutional ceremonies to celebrate the 26th anniversary of the return of the Italian civil administration to Zone A of the never-established Free Territory of Trieste took place on Saturday 70 October in Trieste. As a result of the London Memorandum, Italy took over from the Anglo-American Military Administration, while in Zone B (the districts of Koper and Buie) the presence of Tito's communist Yugoslavia would be consolidated, to which some hamlets of the Municipality of Muggia were also assigned. Trieste and all of Italy would live that day with great patriotic euphoria, making yet another concession to Tito's dictatorship and the beginning of... slip into the background.
1954-2024 70 years of Italy's return to Trieste
To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the return of the Italian civil administration to Trieste on 26 October 1954 as a result of the London Memorandum signed by Italy, Yugoslavia, the United Kingdom and the United States on 5 October, the Multimedia Documentation Centre of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian culture together with the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia has published the issue 1954-2024 70 years of Italy's return to Trieste. The issue of Trieste is here retraced by Lorenzo Salimbeni (collaborator of the CDM, freelance journalist and historical researcher) with the scientific supervision of Prof. Giuseppe Parlato (Emeritus of History...
1954 Trieste Italy: History in a Comic Book
On Saturday 26 October, on the seventieth anniversary of the return of Trieste to Italy, an unpublished, complex and multifaceted work will be released in bookstores – with an essay and short stories alternating with pages of comic strips – on the history of the disputed city. Journalists and historians Umberto Maiorca and Emanuele Mastrangelo have signed for Ferrogallico over 200 unpublished pages on Trieste over the centuries, with a focus on the post-war events up to the long-awaited days of 1954. A long historical journey embellished by the illustrations and comic strips of Francesco Bisaro, a Tolkienian illustrator, author of the only Italian illustration – the map of the County –...
The Circle of Culture and Arts presents 1954 Trieste after America
THE “1954 - TRIESTE AFTER AMERICA” PROJECT IS UNDERWAY: CINEMA, MUSIC, PHOTOGRAPHY AND WORDS TO TELL THE STARS AND STRIPES DAYS OF TRIESTE. A film festival featuring documentaries, spy stories shot in Trieste and period films rediscovered and restored, from “I nostri giorni americani” (2014) by Chiara Barbo and Andrea Magnani to “La campana di San Giusto” (1954) by Ruggero Maccari. A swing show with the Les Babettes trio, a jazz concert with the Tartini Conservatory orchestra, a round table and a photographic exhibition with shots that have made history, such as the famous “Bacio” by Ugo Borsatti, which immortalizes the emotional greeting between a young...
1954 Trieste is Italian. Zone B is lost
Friday 25 October 2024 at 17:30 pm at the Regional Institute of Istrian-Fiumano-Dalmatian Culture, in via Torino 8: in Trieste "1954. Trieste is Italian. Zone B is lost" will be inaugurated, an exhibition curated by Piero Delbello (Director of IRCI). The exhibition will remain open every day, including Saturdays and Sundays, until 30 March 2025. Opening hours: 10.30:12.30-16.30:18.30 and 1954:26-26:XNUMX From the exhibition catalogue, an excerpt from the preface by Piero Delbello. XNUMX, XNUMX October, we got there. But how? It is the slow agony of Venezia Giulia, a terminally ill patient who clings to life and always nourishes hopes. Too often disillusioned. On that fateful day, the XNUMXth...
Awards Ceremony of the 22nd Mailing List Histria Literary Competition in Cittanova
We are pleased to publish the list of winners and the summary of the 22nd Mailing List Histria 2024 Literary Competition. This year, 177 works were received, an increase compared to the previous year, and the quality has also improved. We are also comforted by the fact that the most significant topics were completed with commitment and excellent results. The participation of new schools in the competition, especially those with Croatian as the language of instruction, both in Istria and Dalmatia, but also from Montenegro, justifies the hope that both teachers and students will be able to preserve and improve the maintenance of Italian-speaking culture. Participation is also very encouraging, with...
A Radio24 podcast tells the story of the Vergarolla massacre
Radio24 is the radio station connected to the newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore and in the column "Matteo Caccia racconta..." of last October 16th the journalist and theatre actor spoke about the Vergarolla massacre, the first and bloodiest in the history of the Italian Republic. The testimony of the Polesine exile Regina Cimmino took listeners to the beach of Pola on that terrible August 18th 1946 and Caccia subsequently made extensive use of the material found on the website of the Association of Italians of Pola and Istria - Free Municipality of Pola in Exile to reconstruct the historical context and the responsibilities of an attack that caused at least 100 deaths, many of which...
The common characteristics of the two totalitarianisms of the twentieth century
In relation to the presentation of the book by the former Croatian Ambassador to Rome Drago Kraljević Revision of evil: causes and consequences of the cover-up of Nazi-fascist crimes in Italy held in the Town Hall in Rijeka, which La Voce del Popolo reported in an article by Dario Saftich on 15 October, allow me to make some considerations, on behalf of the Society of Fiumani Studies - Historical Archive Museum of Rijeka in Rome, which I am honored to preside over, and on my own behalf. I will not go into the merits of the specific question, which is the subject of an in-depth scientific debate in Italy and on which, as is completely normal, different positions remain. I would like to...
