Sport, culture, history, art and identity mix together in the waves of the Barcolana, the most attended regatta in the world, and flock to the stand of the Stall. Eastern Adriatic Book Fair, set up in Trieste inside the Barcolana Village at Riva Tre Novembre by the Multimedia Documentation Centre of the Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian Culture and by the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia. Alongside the StallThe People's University of Trieste is also making its cultural contribution to the Barcolana Village, with a stand set up to celebrate its 125-year history and present its latest publications and initiatives developed in collaboration with the native Italian community of the eastern Adriatic.

The meetings will begin on Thursday, October 9th at 16:30 pm with a presentation of the scheduled events, with Renzo Codarin (President of ANVGD), Mauro Manca (Egean Ecomuseum of Fertilia) and Lorenzo Salimbeni (CDM).

At 5:30 pm, the presentation of Mauro Manca's book "Fertilia between inclusion and rebirth" will follow. One of the last cities founded in the 1930s, left incomplete due to the outbreak of the Second World War, it welcomed hundreds of Istrian, Fiume, and Dalmatian exiles in the post-war period. They integrated with the original community of settlers from Ferrara and Veneto, revitalizing the village north of Alghero.

On Friday, October 10, at 15:00 PM, Lorenzo Salimbeni (CDM) will present the latest initiatives promoted by the Ministry of Education and Merit to disseminate the history of the Adriatic border among Italian students, with particular reference to the Journeys of Remembrance, which have a valuable reference point in the Basovizza Foiba Documentation Center, managed by the National League.

At 16:00 PM, film critic Alessandro Cuk will present his new book, "The Cinema of the Adriatic Border 1945-2025," which premiered at the recent Venice International Film Festival. It covers everything from the earliest newsreels to the most recent fiction that has helped raise awareness of the history of Italy's eastern border.

At 17:00 PM, the Association of Istrian Communities will present and screen excerpts from a series of documentaries by filmmaker Marco Tessarolo illustrating the history and traditions of Istria: Long live San Zorzi! Piran's monumental and spiritual Latin-Venetian heritage., The Three Kings in the frescoes of Istrian churches, The Dance of Death in the Frescoes of Istrian Churches e Lonely and abandoned places of inland Istria.

At 18:00 PM, Alessandro Piemonte will speak from the Trieste organizing committee for the Corsa del Ricordo (Race of Remembrance), an event organized by the ASI (Italian Sports and Social Associations) in collaboration with the ANVGD. Originally founded in the Julian-Dalmatian district of Rome, it is now taking place in more and more Italian cities to honor, through sport, the victims of the foibe massacres and the suffering of the exiles from Istria, Fiume, and Dalmatia.

The FertiliArt Award, promoted by the associations participating in the Fertilia.org project (CCN, Associazione EGEA, ANVGD, Comitato di Quartiere, and EGIS), will be presented on Saturday, October 11th at 10:00 a.m. It will be presented to civil society figures or institutional representatives who, through their commitment and dedication, have contributed to raising awareness of the history of Fertilia and its surrounding area. This first edition will be presented to the Minister of Labor and Social Policies, Marina Elvira Calderone, who has demonstrated great sensitivity to issues of Italianness in the Adriatic, also thanks to the experience of her mother's exile from Arsia.

At 12:00, a meeting will be held with the Giuliani nel Mondo Association on the Roots Tourism project. Officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will be present, a ministry that is working to help new generations of Italian emigrants rediscover their cultural roots and identity.

In the afternoon, the events resume at 16:00 PM with the presentation of innovative multimedia projects created by the Julian-Dalmatian Exiles Associations and the Young People of the Italian Union, with representatives of FederEsuli and the Italian Union.

At 5.30 pm the Fertilia project will be presented in Barcolana together with the protagonists of the project itself who will compete in the 57th^a edition of the regatta that will take place the following day in the waters of the Gulf of Trieste.

Grand finale on Sunday at 4.15pm with the official presentation of the The Flagship – Grand Tour of the Sea 2026, 2nd edition of the regatta that unites Venice, Istria and Lussino. Dedicated to the Olympic sailing champion and commander of the Vespucci Agostino “Tino” Straulino, L'Ammiraglia renews the deep bond between the two shores of the Adriatic, proposing sailing as a universal language of dialogue and European belonging.

A fitting conclusion to a series of events uniting Julian-Dalmatian exiles and the native Italian community of the eastern Adriatic, restoring the Adriatic to its former role as a unifying sea through which the identity of Adriatic Italianness is strengthened.