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Giovanni Radossi Honorary President UI
Historical director and co-founder of the Historical Research Center of Rovinj, professor and politician, Giovanni Radossi has been elected honorary president of the Italian Union, for an indefinite period and in an honorary capacity. The Assembly established this yesterday, with 40 votes in favor, during its fifteenth session, at the Antonio Coslovich City Theater in Umag. Thirty years after its foundation, the association of Italians in Croatia and Slovenia looks to the members who have marked both its path and that of the Italian National Community itself, thus contributing to the maintenance of language, culture and identity in these lands, after the...
Venice and the Dalmatian Islands
Preview from the OBC Transeuropa website some pages of a guide dedicated to the Republic of Venice - which will be released at the end of the year - first volume of the series "Extinguished countries - States disappeared" by Giovanni Vale - 19/10/2020 Source: Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa The sea unites, the sea divides. This is the oscillation that characterizes the relationship between the two shores of the Adriatic over time. Croatia shares a very long season with the Serenissima. Istria and Dalmatia are part of the Republic for three, four, even five centuries depending on the location. Together they experience the rise, the wars with the Ottomans fought side by side, the decline and...
Croatia, tourism holds up but infections rise
Croatia seems to be paying for the tourist season that did not go so badly in July and August with a record number of coronavirus infections. In the meantime, people are thinking about how to go back to school on September 7. by Giovanni Vale - 25/08/2020 - Source: Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa A new record number of infections was reached last weekend: 306 new cases were registered on Saturday, August 22, the highest number ever reported in Croatia since the beginning of the pandemic. To give an idea of the proportions, consider that during the so-called first wave of the coronavirus, between March and May, the number of infections had never exceeded one hundred. Furthermore, if we consider the number of infections on...
River 2020, everything blocked
The words of Croatian Minister of Culture Nina Obuljen Koržinek have caused a stir, as she seems to have put a stone on the extensive program of Rijeka European Capital of Culture 2020. Artists and organizers would like to have a chance in 2021, but the minister does not agree. by Giovanni Vale - 16/04/2020 Source: https://www.balcanicaucaso.org/aree/Croazia/Rijeka-Fiume-2020-tutto-bloccato-201027 “It is clear that a large part of the program will not be able to be organized and, under these circumstances, neither the municipal budget nor the state budget will be able to fulfill the financial commitments undertaken”. With these words, pronounced during an interview with...
A journey to the Republic of Venice
Extinguished Countries is the first series of travel guides dedicated to countries that no longer exist. It is a project created by journalist Giovanni Vale and translator Ivana Pogacic, an Italian-Croatian couple based in Zagreb, Croatia. The aim, they say, is to “discover what unites us rather than divides us.” What if this summer, instead of going on vacation to Greece or Spain, you traveled within the Republic of Venice? An editorial project born in Zagreb, Croatia, is today launching “the first series of guides to disappeared countries,” or countries that no longer exist. The project was started by a young Italian-Croatian couple, Giovanni...
