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The winners of the 21st International Literary Competition Mailing List Histria 2023
A total of 21 works were submitted to the 2023st International Literary Competition Mailing List Histria 153 and 213 students participated; 28 schools involved plus 7 Italian Communities and a total of 58 teachers. 4 students submitted works in both the individual and group essay categories, while 3 participated not only with their own school but also with their Italian Community. - from Elementary School 95: 87 individual works and 8 group works - from High School 44: 38 individual works and 6 group works - in addition, 14 drawings were submitted by the little ones of the Nursery School (out of competition) Dalmatia participated with 25...
The Polesine exiles and the City of Pola remembered the massacre of Vergarolla
On August 18, 77 years ago, the bloodbath that would later go down in history as the “Vergarolla Massacre” took place. A Sunday on the beach, a sporting Sunday. A few hundred Polesi settled on the seashore to watch the Coppa Scarioni races for what should have been a day of celebration but instead turned into a day of blood. The mines piled up on the beach and in the sea, now considered harmless, so much so that bathers walked past them and placed their things on them, gave rise to a terrifying explosion that transformed the beach into a slaughterhouse. Sixty-four victims were identified, a few more...
The Vergarolla massacre according to the Julian newspapers of the time
Today marks the anniversary of the bloodiest massacre in the history of the Italian Republic, which took place on the beach of Vergarolla, near Pola, on Sunday 18 August 1946. Due to the explosion of a defused mine depot, at least a hundred people were killed (only 64 were identified, the others were literally pulverized) and even more were injured, the most serious of whom Dr. Geppino Micheletti did his utmost to save at the city hospital, even though he knew that his two young children were among the victims. And like them, many other children, women, defenseless civilians who thought they were finding a peaceful day at the seaside. This terrible episode, which took place almost...
Commemoration of the Vergarolla massacre
August 18, 1946. On that tragic Sunday, two and a half kilometers from the center of Pola, on the Vergarolla beach, while the annual swimming competitions of the Scarioni Cup, organized by the Pietas Julia rowing club, were underway, with a large crowd of people, depth charges and other war remnants that had been deactivated by three teams of bomb disposal experts were detonated using a special trigger. The explosion tore apart children, young people and entire families; of the more than 100 dead, only 64 bodies were recomposed and identified, while the other remains were buried without a name. The main hero of the rescue was the surgeon Dr. Geppino Micheletti,...
The martyrdom of Nazario Sauro commemorated in Trieste
Fighter for the freedom of peoples, a leading figure of Istrian irredentism, Lieutenant of the Royal Navy and Gold Medal for Military Valor in memory. Nazario Sauro, born in Capodistria in 1880 when it belonged to Austria-Hungary, at the outbreak of the Great War went to Italy to avoid being enlisted in the Habsburg army and instead to work for the Savoy Kingdom to enter the conflict to complete national unification. When this finally happened, he left a letter to a journalist friend to give to his firstborn son Nino if he died in the war. After various naval exploits, taken prisoner and condemned as...
Dalmatians towards the 70th gathering
It was 1953, 70 years ago: 7000 Dalmatians, many of them our parents, gathered for the first time after the exodus to Venice, the heart of the Dogado. Ti con nu, nu con ti, under the wings of that lion that for centuries has represented our bulwark, our identity, our culture. 2023: here we are, under the wings of the lion that stands out on the façade of the Bo, home to the prestigious University of Padua, in the Stato da Terra, celebrating our annual gathering, we of the Stato da Mar. Ti con nu, nu con ti. All in what Niccolò Tommaseo called “The University of the Dalmatians”, so much so that those of us who can boast like him of having graduated here claim it with...
Female Cinema at the Italian Film Festival in Rovinj
The 21st edition of the Italian Film Festival was inaugurated in the Sala Maggiore of the Italian Community “Pino Budicin” in Rovinj. This year's program focuses entirely on the figure of the “plural feminine”, with a selection of films that have marked the history of Italian cinematography, whose protagonists of this edition are the extraordinary interpreters of comedies and dramatic films. This year's edition of the Italian Film Festival is curated by Sabrina Benussi and is organized in collaboration with the “Circolo del cinema di Adria”, which since 2019, the year in which Emanuela Finesso took over the presidency, who still...
Great public success for the Summer Festival of the Coast
Final report of the 30th Primorska Summer Festival, which this year had the financial support of the Italian communities of Koper and Piran and the Consulate General of Italy in Koper, among others. The organizers are satisfied and look forward to the next edition with optimism and are already working on the winter program. The organizers of the Festival, partners and authorities, including the deputy mayor of the municipality of Ankaran Barbara Švagelj, the municipality that hosted the final conference, expressed great satisfaction with the festival that in its thirtieth edition achieved great success with the public, which brought to the stages...
The July 2023 issue of “L'Arena di Pola” has been released
Dear Readers of L'ARENA DI POLA, dear Members of AIPI-LCPE, July 29th marks 78 years since the first publication of L'Arena di Pola. It seems like yesterday... A spontaneous and frequently used phrase, yet with a truthful and thoughtful content. Yes, time passes, or, as those who speak well say, Pánta rheî: life passes and doesn't return, it transforms and transforms. Even the most significant of moments, captured in a photograph or in words of remembrance, cannot be repeated; it will be similar but not the same. This is the importance of authenticity in reporting facts and events, collected and preserved in a news sheet. The summary of the July edition: - Between yesterday and...
Piran, the inauguration of the Tartini statue remembered
Giuseppe Tartini is certainly one of the jewels in the crown of the Istrian town where he was born in 1692 and where he spent his childhood and youth, after which he took flight to Padua and from there around the world. To keep the memory of the illustrious figure alive, the city theater and the central square are dedicated to him and the Italian Community that has its headquarters in the house where he was born also took his name… In the two hundred years since the birth of the musician, the people of Piran wanted to erect a monument in his honor and entrusted the task of creating the bronze work to the Venetian sculptor Antonio Dal Zotto (1841-1918), which was erected in...
