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Face to face with Abdon Pamich the walker
The prime-time drama series "The Walker. The True Story of Abdon Pamich" aired on Rai 1 on February 10th was inspired by the book that Pamich had previously co-written with Roberto Covaz for Biblioteca dell'Immagine, Memoirs of a Walker. Drawing on this work, the Padua Provincial Committee of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, in collaboration with the Association of Rijeka Italians in the World and with the patronage of the Municipality of Padua, organized the meeting "Face to Face with Abdon Pamich the Walker" on Friday, March 27th in the Sala Paladin of Palazzo Moroni. The meeting featured Pamich (a Rijeka exile,...
Abdon Pamich, Olympian and exile from Fiume, protagonist of the fiction "The Marcher"
Sport was one of the spheres in which exiles from Julian, Rijeka, and Dalmatia sought redemption after the traumatic abandonment of their hometowns and the difficult reintegration into the social fabric of an Italy exhausted by the Second World War. The exodus was a repository of stories of rebirth and resilience, desperation and failure, retracing one's steps and emigration. In recent years, RAI has drawn on these stories, whose protagonists often left written traces of their experiences through poignant autobiographical testimonies or through fictionalized forms. In 2024, it was broadcast in conjunction with the Day...
Fiume, a forge of champions
An inexhaustible source of champions who made the fortune of Italian sport before and immediately after the war. Footballers, boxers, tennis players, athletes… There are many – impossible to list them all – Rijeka players who contributed to the successes of the Azzurri, winning Olympic, world and European titles as well as obtaining results of absolute prestige in other international events. In the collective imagination, Ezio Loik was perhaps the best exponent of Rijeka football. A hard-working midfielder, with a rather stocky physique and a not very elegant bearing, he was nicknamed “elephant”. One of the pillars of the Grande Torino, he perished in the tragedy of...
The great Julian-Dalmatian champions
The National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia presents SO FAR SO CLOSE ADALBERTO SCEMMA TELLS THE STORIES OF THE GREAT GIULIAN DALMATIAN CHAMPIONS They are all great champions, sports people, accustomed to hard work, sacrifice and success. They all come from an enchanted strip of land, kissed by the sun and the sea, but mortified by history, by unfortunate pacts and by the painful experience of exile. All of them have honored the roots of their land, all of them, so far away and yet ideally always so close to their roots, have honored sport in its maximum expression. These are their...
Documentary film on the Exodus and the Race of Remembrance
Due to the pandemic, the Corsa del Ricordo 2021 was held in virtual mode. In the end, even if in a different way than usual, the event achieved its goal by registering the participation of athletes from all over Italy and abroad who wanted to honor in a sporting way the noble purposes that the event sets itself. The organizers wanted, on this special occasion, to create a docufilm - which will be released, in preview by the Adnkronos agency, on Friday 19 March. Visible on the homepage from 10:30 am - which tells the sad events of the foibe and the tragedy of the Julian-Dalmatian exodus as well as the sporting history of the Corsa...
Meeting with Giordano Bruno Guerri and other initiatives of the Society of Fiumani Studies
December 2, 2017 President Giovanni Stelli and Director of the Historical Archive Museum of Fiume Marino Micich met with the President of the Vittoriale degli Italiani Foundation Giordano Bruno Guerri. Some programmatic lines of collaboration have been established between the Society of Fiumani Studies and the Vittoriale Foundation whose president has established a "Fiume Office" with Dr. Federico Carlo Simonelli as contact, to be able to celebrate the next centenary of the D'Annunzio Enterprise of Fiume (1919-2019) also with the involvement of the Fiume exiles. Initiatives are planned at the Vittoriale, in Rome and in Fiume. In Fiume (Rijeka) in particular, contact will be made with...
