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University of Rijeka ranked 108th in the world
Up 20 places. 450 universities from Emerging Europe and Central Asia rated The University of Rijeka has ranked 108th with 35,5 points in the QS EECA University Rankings for the current academic year, which rates 450 universities from Emerging Europe and Central Asia, moving up 20 places in the ranking list compared to the previous year. The rating is based on ten indicators, including faculty experience, international student ratios, academic reputation and the quality of courses offered. Russian universities are the most represented in the list, followed by Turkish ones...
Dante. The testimony of the plurality of the Italian territory
In conversation with the scholar and Dante scholar Valentina Petaros Jeromela from Koper, who illustrates the importance of her volume, published by the National League of Trieste on the occasion of the seven hundredth anniversary of the death of the Father of the Italian language. Literature is made up of travel stories, because we do not only travel through space, but also through time: all of man's life can be considered a journey and is comparable to an uninterrupted series of stages and encounters, together with other traveling companions. The Divine Comedy represents not only a literary work but also a journey: spiritual, through Hell, Purgatory and...
The winners of Istria Nobilissima 2021
The Italian Union has published the names of the winners of the 54th edition of the Istria Nobilissima Art and Culture Competition, the flagship of the Italian National Community and promoter of the various forms of art that emanate from these lands and give credit to a community that is culturally and artistically fertile like few others. 68 authors participated in this year's edition; the prizes awarded and the names of the winners are as follows: A) Literature Category – OSVALDO RAMOUS Prize Sections: 1. POETRY IN ITALIAN First prize: MARIO SIMONOVICH – FIUME Title: Versi confinanti (Collection of poems) Reason: Poetry of memory and...
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...
Advent in Istrian Art
The peninsula preserves an important artistic heritage linked to Christmas, the Three Kings and Epiphany, depicted in the paintings and frescoes of numerous churches. A typical example is also the nativity scene, present in Istria since the 700th century. Art historian Marino Baldini tells us about it. The Advent and Christmas period began on the last Sunday of November. This festive period will culminate on December 25th and end on January 6th of next year. In the Istrian tradition, this is a period full of events and celebrations, which has also left its mark on regional art. We talked about it with art historian Marino Baldini. “In Istria we have a...
Europe Recognizes the Value of the Film "River or Death!"
Director Igor Bezinović Receives €140 in Funding for Feature-Length Documentary Inspired by D'Annunzio The Steering Committee of the European Co-production Fund Eurimages has supported a total of 37 projects, including the film “Fiume o morte!” by director and screenwriter Igor Bezinović. The Croatian Audiovisual Centre announced the news. The decision to provide €140 in funding for the feature-length film produced by Restart was made at the 164th session, held on December 9. The film's producer, Vanja Jambrović, commented on the decision by saying that Bezinović's film, although dealing with...
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...
Fiume, a forge of champions
An inexhaustible source of champions who made the fortune of Italian sport before and immediately after the war. Footballers, boxers, tennis players, athletes… There are many – impossible to list them all – Rijeka players who contributed to the successes of the Azzurri, winning Olympic, world and European titles as well as obtaining results of absolute prestige in other international events. In the collective imagination, Ezio Loik was perhaps the best exponent of Rijeka football. A hard-working midfielder, with a rather stocky physique and a not very elegant bearing, he was nicknamed “elephant”. One of the pillars of the Grande Torino, he perished in the tragedy of...
Verteneglio: memories, faces and traditions
A volume, “Verteneglio. Memories, faces and traditions of an Istrian community” written by David di Paoli Paulovich, comparable to a treasure chest rich not only in stories, traditions, music and memories, but also in experiences, testimonies and collections of research that will surely enrich not only libraries and archives, but also the historical and cultural baggage of the inhabitants of the territory, as everyone can find in it a piece of history of their family, their habits or simply memories that now surely will not be lost in the oblivion of time. The volume, published by the Association of Istrian Communities of Trieste, of which...
Istria as a film set
Neither Hollywood nor Bollywood, but Istria also holds its own in cinematographic terms. It is not a celluloid factory (although films now do not even know the material, but it is a cliché), but it participates in the creation of dreams. Let's say that due to its happy configuration, the peninsula is well suited to be a location for the most disparate situations. Do you need the sea? Here it is. A bit of mountains. In a moment and we serve it. Medieval villages, Mediterranean cities, desert lands... just ask. In a moment there it is, the theater of war, adventure, espionage, love, betrayal, shootings, chases. In fact, there are quite a few films that at least for some scenes were filmed...
