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The secrets of Istrian castles
The Multimedia Center in Rovinj hosted the exhibition and presentation of the book “Magical Istria – the hidden secrets of Istrian fortifications” (Čarobna Istra – skrivene tajne istarskih gradina), written and illustrated by the authoritative multimedia artist Zdenko Bašić, created within the framework of the Cross-border Cooperation Programme Italy–Croatia 2014-2020 thanks to the strategic project “Take it slow”, promoted by the Regional Department for Culture and Territoriality. The director of the local Open People’s University, Dubravka Svetličić, gave a warm welcome to the large audience that came despite the adverse weather, as well as the...
Istria and traditions related to Epiphany
In Catholic countries - today - the Epiphany is celebrated which in some areas - such as in upper Istria - is remembered with the arrival of the Befana. In some countries it is the Three Wise Men who deliver gifts to good children, in others instead the task is assigned to the Befana. A tradition that is alive and still resists in upper Istria. "South of the Quieto River it was Saint Nicholas, today's Santa Claus, and arriving on December 6th he opened the Christmas festivities while north of the river it was the Befana who brought gifts to children and closed - 12 days after Christmas - all the festivities" says Paola Delton, researcher at the Historical Research Center and adds: "An imaginary figure...
A Century of Istrian Art and Artists in One Book
Dejan Mehmedovič is a rather well-known figure in the region, even among the compatriots. His collaborations with our Communities for the preparation of exhibitions of artists linked to the minority, as well as other Italian artists, are countless. On the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Insula Gallery in Isola, which he has always led, Mehmedovič has now published a "Profile of artistic creativity in Slovenian Istria in recent decades", a work rich in information and data, currently available only in Slovenian. Despite the title, the volume spans an entire century, starting from the XNUMXs and up to the present. It is thus taken into...
House of Istrian Castles Opened in Momjan
The new structure aims to enhance and promote the cultural heritage of the peninsula's castles and their villages. The old Momiano dairy has become the House of Istrian Castles in three years of work. On the ground floor of the three-story building there is an information point and the ancient families of the area and local products are presented. On the first floor there is a multimedia room for meetings of various kinds, an exhibition space and a multipurpose room and on the second floor there is an exhibition dedicated to the history of the town. Visitors are offered a virtual tour of the Istrian castles. The total investment is 930.000 euros of which...
The ethnographic museum in Pazin also commemorates the Istrian exodus
Five years after the opening of the first part of the exhibition, the Ethnographic Museum of Istria, located in the Pazin Castle, has opened the second part of the collection related to the life and history of the Istrian population. The presentation of the cultures of Istria in the Ethnographic Museum was conceived as a permanent exhibition in the form of a mosaic, in the process of creation and continuous evolution. After the first part, in which Istria is presented primarily as a geographical complex, the second part interprets various everyday situations characteristic for human destinies in various parts of the peninsula in recent...
…of the twilights in September, all the ruin
The writings of the great poet from Trieste Lina Galli collected here, edited by the historian Roberto Spazzali, are mainly based on the author's autographed notes meticulously collected between 1945 and 1957 through the examination of the press, interviews, memoirs, testimonies, annotations. All this material was donated to the Regional Institute for Istrian, Fiumana and Dalmatian Culture by Luigi Galli and Maria Pia Galli on 22 February 2006, his heirs, and was reorganized by the historian Roberto Spazzali a few months later for study and research purposes. These texts fill a gap in the testimonial history of the events that occurred in Istria in the autumn of 1943, in the sense that...
Dear friends of the Eastern Adriatic [Paolo Sardos Albertini]
Dear friends and brothers, Italians of Istria, Fiume, Dalmatia, Montenegro The National League celebrated 130 years of its history, also remembering you. Because, of this long period that touched three centuries, that went from the era of horse-drawn trams to that of computers, because of these many decades of history a good part was lived also with you, also by you. Thus at the time of the resistance against the Habsburg genocide: the National League was present in your territories to try to stem the will of Franz Joseph to use every means to erase the Italian presence and Slavicize this entire area. Together we lived...
The gift of the Triestine patriots to the King of Italy in 1861
The collections of Miramare Castle in Trieste have been enriched by a patriotic painting made in 1861 and sent to Vittorio Emanuele II, King of Italy since 17 March of that year. It is "Allegory of Trieste and Istria", a work by Annibale Strata, a painter who among other things had actively taken part in the uprisings of 1848-'49. The work, recovered from the archives of the Royal Palace of Turin as part of a recovery and enhancement project promoted by the Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini, will remain on display in the wing of the castle where the Duke of Aosta had stayed for several years. The Piccolo -...
The “remaining” Julians, victims of history
“Bora” by Anna Maria Mori and Nelida Milani (Frassinelli, 1998, 240 p.) contains the testimony of two women, natives of Pola, whose young lives were affected by the tragic events of the Second World War with the exodus of the Italian population from Istria, Fiume, Dalmatia. This marked forever, for them as for many of us natives of those lands, the irreversible laceration between the “before” and the “after”. At the end of the book there is a chronology of the main historical events that concern us. It was written by Antonella Scarpa, who, we learn, “lives in Venice where she studies contemporary history, and works as a librarian. Daughter of an exile who has...
“The Socialist Abyss” by Gabriella Chmet presented in Trieste
Five years after the novel La guerra di Giusto, my new narrative/memoir L'abisso socialista. Memorie di una ex Yugoslava is published by Luglio Editore in Trieste. The most difficult book, the most painful, the story of a life that defines an entire existence. No, I'm not exaggerating, I'm aware of having touched the most delicate chords, of having put my finger in a wound that has never completely healed. The story that spans the second half of the twentieth century and ends in the present day, is the story of Tito's Yugoslavia, of his parable as god-master of a nation built with iron and fire on a purely ideological basis....
