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The patronage of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers for the exhibition “Hidden Cities”
The Presidency of the Council of Ministers has granted its Patronage to the exhibition “Hidden Cities. Atlas of Refugee Camps of Trieste (1947-1975)” set up at the Museum of Modern Art “Ugo Carà” in Muggia (TS) and inaugurated last Friday. A great satisfaction for this initiative created by Dr. Francesco Fait and in which the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian Exiles has actively collaborated in its realization together with the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian culture and the Provincial Committee of Trieste of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia. It is...
Exhibition “Hidden Cities. Atlas of Refugee Camps in Trieste” inaugurated
The exhibition "Hidden Cities. Atlas of Refugee Camps in Trieste (31-1947)" opened on Friday 1975 January at the "Ugo Carà" Museum of Modern Art in Muggia (TS): it is a geography of the places that from the post-war period until 1975 welcomed exiles from Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia in the territory of the current province of Trieste. Present at the inauguration, in addition to the curator Francesco Fait and the national president of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia and of FederEsuli, Renzo Codarin, also local political authorities such as the mayor of Muggia, Paolo Polidori, his deputy Nicola Delconte, the mayor of Trieste Roberto Dipiazza, Massimo Romita in...
The exhibition “Hidden Cities. Atlas of Refugee Camps in Trieste (1947-1975)”
On Friday 31 January at 18:00 pm the exhibition Hidden Cities. Atlas of the Refugee Camps of Trieste (1947-1975) will be inaugurated at the “Ugo Carà” Museum of Modern Art in Muggia (TS) and will be open from 1 to 16 February 2025 (from Thursday to Saturday 10 am -12 pm and 17 pm - 19 pm, Sunday 10 am -12 pm - free admission). This is a historical-documentary exhibition created by the CDM - Multimedia Documentation Centre of the Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian culture together with the Provincial Committee of Trieste of the ANVGD - National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, in collaboration with FederEsuli - Federation of the Associations of Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian Exiles,...
Christmas letter from the refugee camp in Naples in 1953
Christmas is almost here. My grandson Matteo, when he gets home, says to me: “You know, Grandpa, the teacher made us write a Christmas letter for our parents. I have to put it under the plate”. Good! I tell him. But try to put into practice what you wrote. But you, he says to me, when you were a child did you write a letter? Of course not, if I remember correctly I wrote two, one in fourth grade and one in fifth grade. In the orphanage I had a good teacher who made us write them. I have kept them. Now I will tell you, or rather wait a moment while I look for them among my things. Here is one. Two pages with gold edges. The date is 1953. Two pages with gold edges. The teacher of...
Those days perfumed with a thousand odors that so much reminded me of the birth of Fiume
Warm greetings to all the mularia. Christmas is coming and even if the pandemic rages and limits it, as much as we can we will all try to recreate that atmosphere that has accompanied it since its birth. Christmas, here in the Village, was almost always accompanied by snow and if it wasn't snowing it was foggy and cold, but snow and foggy and cold didn't stop the girls from hunting for stockfish and cod. The days before Christmas Eve were fragrant and the air was filled with a thousand inviting smells. As you entered the Village you got drunk and an incessant hammering grabbed your ears: it was the girls who pounded the stockfish on the granite stakes, placed as deterrents between the gardens and the...
Bancarella 2021: female perspectives on the Adriatic and closing dedicated to the Exodus
A day entirely dedicated to women, the third of the Bancarella 2021 Salone del Libro dell'Adriatico Orientale, the event organized in Trieste by the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian culture (CDM) in synergy with the Provincial Committee of Trieste of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia. “Queen” of the women of the Eastern Adriatic (Saturday's theme) was chef Lidia Matticchio Bastianich, received in the marquee of Piazza Sant'Antonio in Trieste like a real star. Young and old, young and old crowded (as much as possible given the period) the interior and immediate exterior of the...
The lost homeland in the CRP of Laterina
The Lost Homeland is the new book on the refugees of Venezia Giulia written by Elio Varutti, of the ANVGD of Udine, with the precious collaboration of Claudio Ausilio, of the ANVGD of Arezzo, for the publisher Aska of Florence. Those who lost their homeland, after the Second World War, were the Italian citizens of Fiume, Pola and Zara and a part of those of Gorizia and Trieste. Their lands, their homes and their belongings were given to Yugoslavia as compensation for the damages of the war wanted by the Duce and the King. 350 thousand were expelled, or had to leave with regular documents, to pour into the rest of stepmother Italy, with the fear of the foibe. Many passed through the Centers...
“Traces of Exile” at the CRP of Laterina
Never before have we seen such a flourishing period of books on the Julian-Dalmatian exodus. Essays, historical research, testimonies and novels: various authors are throwing themselves into this investigation that has been relegated to silence for too long, since the Second World War. They are not just memorials afflicted by victimism, as the justificationists, reductionists and deniers of the foibe theme dare to claim. You can also find extensive academic studies, journalistic investigations, stories, poems, archival research, with interviews and field visits. This is also the case with this book. Giuliana Pesca, Serena Domenici and Giovanni...
The betrayed border
The story of the dramatic post-war Julian period in the Gherdovich family saga. A permanent conflict that will become a collective drama by Ernesto Ferrante - 12/07/2020 - Source: l'Opinione Pubblica The long-awaited sequel to the award-winning Fratelli Contro, the debut novel by Paduan Valentino Quintana, was released in all bookstores on June 25, published again by Leone Editore. It is entitled Il Confine Betrayed and tells in a scrupulous and realistic way the dramatic events of post-war Trieste and Venezia Giulia, inserted in the Gherdovich family saga. The first pages "catapult" the reader into the middle of the 40 days of Tito's occupation of...
A plaque at the CRP of Altamura
Between Gravina in Puglia and Altamura in the province of Bari, stands one of the 109 Refugee Collection Centers present in the Italian territory where thousands of Istrians, Fiume and Dalmatians were "welcomed" after being forced to abandon their homes and lands at the end of the Second World War. Camp 65, the one in Altamura, where the exiles from Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia arrived starting in 1951 and which today is abandoned to the elements and oblivion: the former Command Building (used as an elementary school for the little exiles) remains standing and only a small part (about 4) of the 60 warehouses (used as dormitories) that once stood in that area...
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