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Arsia, lest we forget. Roundtable discussion of the Istria Circle.
As part of the initiatives supported by the Municipality of Trieste on the occasion of Remembrance Day 2026, the Circolo Istria organized a roundtable discussion on Wednesday, February 26, titled "Arsia, lest we forget." The discussion can be viewed on the cultural association's YouTube channel. It is an opportunity to remember the sacrifice of the 185 miners who died in what was the largest mining tragedy in Italy at the time. It also highlights the need to promote awareness and memory of this long-forgotten disaster and reaffirm the importance, today, of elevating that sacrifice as a European symbol of the martyrs of...
The Istrian-Venetian Cultural Circle turns 40
The Istrian-Venetian Cultural Circle “Istria” was founded in 1982 by Istrian personalities such as: Mario Brazzafolli, Franco Colombo, Giorgio Depangher, Livio Favento, Mario Fragiacomo, Guido Miglia, Pietro Parentin, Livio Pesante, Rino Prelaz, Stelio Spadaro, Liliana Urbani, Marino Vocci, proposing a recomposition of Istrian culture after the traumas inflicted on it by the war and the post-war period, and particularly intense and profound on the component...
Commemorations of the victims of Arsia
The Istrian-Venetian Cultural Circle “Istria”, in collaboration with the Trade Unions, the Interregional Trade Union Council, the Provincial Consulate of Trieste of the Federation of Masters of Labor and other local and regional entities, organizes a commemoration ceremony in memory of all the martyrs of labor and the victims of the disaster that occurred in the Istrian coal mines of Arsia on February 28, 1940. This was the greatest tragedy that occurred in Italian territory at the time, in which 186 workers lost their lives. The ceremony will take place on Monday, February 28 at 17:00 p.m. in front of the Monument to the Fallen at Work in Largo Ugo...
The activities of the Istria Club for the Day of Remembrance begin today
On Monday 14 February at 17:00 pm at the Casa della Musica (in Via dei Capitelli 3 in Trieste) the Circolo di cultura istro-veneta Istria will present the project “ESPOES”, a multimedia and interactive exhibition dedicated to the history of the Exodus and the Foibe curated and created by our club. The virtual platform is currently being set up and its official inauguration will take place in the coming months, but some content will be presented in preview. Ezio Giuricin and Daniele Kovačić will be speaking. To participate in the event in person, it will be mandatory to show the green pass. The presentation will also be streamed on the home page of the website of the...
Ezio Giuricin President of the “Istria” Club
The Istrian-Venetian Cultural Circle "Istria" of Trieste has a new president, elected during the last assembly of the last few days. Ezio Giuricin born in Fiume, lives in Trieste, journalist, historian and essayist, succeeds Livio Dorigo, for decades at the top of the association who will continue to operate as Honorary President. A change wanted by Dorigo himself, a veterinarian from Pula, who has known the hardship of the refugee camp managing, despite everything, to assert himself in his long career spent in particular in the Varese area. Clear and understandable therefore his passion for bees, goats, sheep and oxen, which he has successfully brought also into the activity of the...
Istria seen from the sea
The volume presented at the Circolo della Stampa in Trieste involves two researchers and university professors, archaeologist Rita Auriemma and geologist Stefano Furlani as well as journalist Rosanna Turcinovich Giuricin. It is fascinating to think of that Istria that we have lost, forever sunk in the sea or hidden from the eyes of visitors, the Istria that Rita Auriemma, Stefano Furlani and Rosanna Turcinovich Giuricin tell us about in the pages of the book, published by the Circolo di cultura istro-veneta “Istria”, with the preface of the president Livio Dorigo, a publication presented at the Circolo della Stampa in Trieste, with the introduction by Luciano Santin. Overcoming the boundaries of...
The proceedings of the conference on cultural return
The proceedings of the conference "IS IT POSSIBLE TO RETURN? The prerequisites for a cultural and socio-economic return project of the second and third generations of the exodus" organized on 21-22 November 2019 in Trieste and Rijeka by the Istro-Venetian Cultural Circle "Istria" of Trieste are available free of charge in PDF format: ISTRIA CIRCLE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Below is the Presentation written by the organizers of the conference. The Conference "IS IT POSSIBLE TO RETURN?" wanted to be an opportunity for debate and discussion to analyze the possibilities connected to a "return" - to their lands of origin - of members of the world of exiles, and in particular of their children and...
