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One hundred years ago the journey of the Unknown Soldier towards the Vittoriano began
Reading the chronicles, it almost seems like you are in another world: «the Commission carefully explored all the places where the fighting had taken place and a body was chosen for each of the following areas: Rovereto, Dolomites, Altipiani, Grappa, Montello, Basso Piave, Cadore, Gorizia, Basso Isonzo, San Michele, from Castagnevizza to the sea. The eleven bodies were initially taken to Gorizia, from where they were then transported to the Basilica of Aquileia on 28 October 1921. Here the choice of the body destined for glorious repose on the Altar of the Fatherland was made. The choice was made by a commoner, Maria Bergamas from Trieste, whose son Antonio had deserted from the army...
Tears for Vergarolla
Tears for Vergarolla - La Stagione Armonica Tears for Vergarolla is the title of a choral composition written specifically for this occasion and therefore proposed as a world premiere. It is a lament to remember the massacre that has now disappeared from collective memory, which took place on the beach of Pola (Vergarolla, precisely) on August 18, 1946, in which about one hundred people died, including mothers, children and other innocents. That attack further encouraged the exodus of about three hundred thousand Istrians, Julians and Dalmatians who chose to abandon their homeland seeking refuge in various countries around the world, but above all in Italy, where they were often welcomed...
