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The Alpine troops of Zadar, Pula and Rijeka opened the parade of the 2024 gathering
Their ranks are thinning due to age, the adhesions of sympathizers compensate and keep this group of Alpini at the forefront. On the other hand, it is up to them to open the parade that concludes the annual gathering of the National Alpine Association, whose 95th edition took place last week in Vicenza. They are formally affiliated as Groups to the ANA Section of Venice in the name of the bond that has united the Serenissima with their lands of origin for centuries. The Alpine Groups of Pola, Fiume and Zara are a source of pride both for the combatant association and for the world of the Julian-Dalmatian exodus. «The gathering in Vicenza went again...
The Alpini honor and remember the Italianness of Pola, Fiume and Zara
Udine and the whole of Friuli Venezia Giulia were peacefully invaded by the black feathers, who arrived in their thousands from all over Italy on the occasion of the 94th annual gathering of the National Alpine Association (11-14 May 2023). It was therefore an opportunity to strengthen the deep bond between the Alpine troops and this region of the eastern border, not only with reference to the war events or the large number of soldiers of this corps coming from here. Significant ceremonies, for example, remembered the generous contribution provided by the members of the ANA, a voluntary association integrated into the ranks of the Civil Protection, on the occasion of the terrible earthquake of 6 May...
To my Alpine Father: A Diary Between War and Irredentism
Today is the first National Day of Memory and Sacrifice of the Alpini, established by Law 44/2022: to celebrate it we point out "To my Alpine Father. The diary of my father in the great war, who wanted to leave "volunteer" to follow the ideal of irredentism" by Gaetano Paolo Agnini. Little-known pages of the Great War, on the thread of the memory of known and unknown heroes. After a hundred years from the conflict that inflamed Europe and involved and shocked the world, new aspects, sometimes disturbing and unpublished, are being drawn from Italian events. "To my Alpine Father" is a true story based on original documents that brings to light human facts and anguish...
Ice and Blood: The Alpini on the Plateaus
The winter between 1916 and 1917 was the most difficult. It was now clear to everyone, from the commanders to the men at the front, that the war would be long, exhausting and without significant turning points. Along the line dividing the Kingdom of Italy and the Habsburg Empire, from Adamello to the Carso and the Isonzo, the armies faced each other with frontal assaults. But in some points of this long front the soldiers also had to fight against the adversities of nature. One of the most sensitive points was the Asiago Plateau. The Battle of the Plateaus Italy's entry into the war against the Central Powers was "greeted" from the Venetian Plateau with a mortar shot from...
Exemplary testimony of Italianness
ALPINE GATHERING IN TRENTO – AN EXEMPLARY TESTIMONY OF ITALIANNESS by Gianmaria Italia - 21/05/2018 “For the Alpini, the impossible does not exist” was written on a long banner that opened the Penne Nere parade in Trento on Sunday 13 May. It was a triumph of Tricolours in a city in celebration to write once again, one hundred years after the end of the Great War, another page of mutual affection between Italians and their Alpini who came to the Trentino capital for the 91st National Gathering. An estimated 500 thousand people came from every part of Italy and the world with fanfare and a great desire to be together in a festive atmosphere. An event...
