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The Lloyd Hotel in Rijeka, Marinetti's Hotel
Fiume is truly beautiful. Sad, tired, worn out, but still intriguing and fascinating, despite every corner, every alley, every forgotten or ignored building crying out for attention and help. To tell the truth, some, mainly used as restaurants/trattorias/fast-food, shops or offices, have been recovered and revalued. Many others, however, silently wait their turn, if it ever comes. As you pass by it is difficult to imagine them teeming with people circulating in their atriums, who stop to chat or read the paper in the elegant cafés, who get drunk on the Fiume air and don't want to leave. In fact, that's exactly how the...
Florinda Klevisser has created the interactive guide of Rijeka
She welcomes me into her living room in Belvedere with the song “Ciao ciao” in the background, presented by La Rappresentante di Lista at the last Sanremo Festival. More than anything, it is the lyrics that strike, lending themselves to being interpreted as a sort of premonition of the current drama that Ukraine is experiencing. Our chat, focused on the release of her interactive guide “Fiume” (Morellini Editore di Milano) and which should have taken place in a slightly more serene climate, begins right here, from the winds of yet another war that risks compromising the entire world. “I am very worried, as I think everyone is right now,” Florinda begins...
«Istria Nobilissima», here is the Competition Announcement
The Executive Board of the Italian Union has approved the Competition Announcement for the LV edition of the Art and Culture Competition “Istria Nobilissima”. The Award, like every year, aims to promote and affirm the artistic and cultural creativity of the Italian National Community of Croatia and Slovenia and to spread it in the territory of its historical settlement and in that of its Mother Nation. The competition is divided into the Category “Literature”, named after Osvaldo Ramous, divided into the sections: Poetry in the Italian language, Poetry in one of the dialects of the Italian National Community, Prose in the Italian language, Prose in one of the dialects of the National Community...
The "Famea dei salineri" guardian of traditions
On the occasion of the National Day of Culture, established in honor of the poet France Prešeren, the Municipality of Piran annually organizes a solemn ceremony at the Portorož Auditorium, in which the mayor awards the Tartini Prize, intended for those who have distinguished themselves in the local cultural sphere. For 2021, the award was given to the “Famea dei salineri” but given the precarious health situation, the in-person ceremony was canceled so the awarding of the prize was filmed outdoors in Tartini Square. A bilingual video-postcard was therefore created and released on the official website of the Municipality, with images of...
History of Italian education in Fiume: the elementary schools
Investing in education is an investment in a prosperous and peaceful future that we all aspire to be part of. The first institution we begin to attend once we grow a little older is school. And it is precisely at school that we learn to live in a community, to respect its rules, to be responsible for our actions. School also plays a central role in maintaining the language, culture and traditions that are expressed through it. And language is a pillar of the identity of every nation. Our language is that represented by the way of expressing ourselves of the members of the national community to which we belong, that is...
Luigi Ziliotto, a dream turned nightmare
Today, February 5, 2022, marks the centenary of the death of Luigi Ziliotto (Zadar, February 8, 1863-Zadar, February 5, 1922), five-time podestà (mayor) of Zadar. Appointed senator of the Kingdom of Italy on November 12, 1921, in December of the same year he gave a passionate speech in the Senate Chamber against the ratification of the Treaty of Rapallo, which handed over all of Dalmatia, with the exception of Zadar, to the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Ziliotto, whose bust, together with that of the other Dalmatian senator of the Kingdom, Roberto Ghiglianovich, is placed next to the entrance to the Senate Chamber in Rome, was an illustrious exponent of Dalmatian irredentist nationalism,...
A report on Istria in the program “Alle falde del Kilimangiaro”
It is said that Jason and the Argonauts fleeing from the Black Sea with the Golden Fleece reached the Upper Adriatic... So says the legend. A legend that director Sibilla Damiani chose to open her reportage on Istria. A travel documentary aired on Sunday 16 January on none other than Rai 3, the third television channel of Rai, the company that provides the Italian public radio and television service. The reportage was broadcast by the well-known presenter Camila Raznovich during "Alle falde del Kilimangiaro", the famous program dedicated to travel, with documentaries, testimonies, insights into the habits and customs of the world and on...
«Wallachian Paths», audio guides in Italian
The Interpretation Centre “Vlach Trails” (Vlaški puti), founded with the aim of promoting the tradition of the Valdarsa (Susgnevizza) area and the Vlach language, continues to enrich its offer. It recently received a donation of 20 thousand kuna from the Department of Culture and Territoriality of the Istrian Region. According to what the coordinator of the public institution, Viviana Brkarić, confirmed to us, the amount made it possible to introduce audio guides in Italian and German, which were added to those in Croatian and English. In addition, to increase the visibility of the Centre and for promotional purposes, materials were created...
125 years of photography in Rijeka
On 9 January 1897, at the then City Boys' School, today the Italian High School and the Elementary School “Dolac”, on the initiative of Sándor Alexander Riegler, the headmaster of that high school, and Peter Salcher, a distinguished physics professor at the Naval Academy of the Austro-Hungarian Army, a photography section was established at the Natural Sciences Club that operated within the institution. Much water has passed under the bridge since then, but the art of amateur photography in Rijeka has not ceased to fascinate enthusiasts, and today the descendant of that section, the Rijeka Photo Club, celebrates the 125th anniversary of the foundation of its predecessor....
Dante, Giotto and the Istrian Peninsula
Istrian art of the late 2021th and early XNUMXth centuries offers a wealth of works that present links with the production of the great artists of the time. Various celebrations and important anniversaries - such as the seven hundredth anniversary of Dante which occurs in this XNUMX that is about to end - can be an opportunity to focus on the art of the era in which people who profoundly influenced Humanism lived; Giotto and Dante for example, the first in the figurative arts, the second for his works that make him the Father of the Italian language. But did Giotto and Dante know each other? There is no certain evidence in the sources, but analyzing the Divine Comedy and the rich...
