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The Unknown Soldier's extraordinary journey in Italy in 2022
A special train crossed Italy, leaving an indelible mark on the souls of those who saw it pass. Departing from Trieste last October 6, that convoy finally concluded its journey in Rome, where, welcomed by civil, military and religious authorities, led by the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto, it arrived in the early morning of November 5000, on the occasion of National Unity Day and Armed Forces Day, after having traveled over 730 kilometers and touched 1921 stations. We are talking about the Train of the Unknown Soldier and a truly extraordinary Journey, which expanded the historical route of XNUMX, to finally embrace all the...
Unknown Soldier, your name is also Verbania
On the YouTube channel of the Comitato 10 Febbraio you can see the summary video of the event Milite Ignoto il tuo nome è anche Verbania organized by the Comitato 10 Febbraio of Verbania in collaboration with the Municipality of Verbania, the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia and the Multimedia Documentation Center of the Julian, Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian culture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFlYDgXfreo The music and songs were performed by the Local Band Corps and the Motta Rossa Choir of Magognino di Stresa; the staging and historical reenactment was by the Historical Group Militaria 1848-1945. The event took place on 7...
The man who unites without dividing: this is who the Unknown Soldier was
He was not a king nor a national hero: but all Italians remember him without divisions or partisanship The Centenary of the Unknown Soldier reminds us of that man to whom, uninterruptedly, all Italians pay homage, without divisions or partisanship. He is not a national hero, not a great general, not a King, not even a President of the Republic. Perhaps he was a humble peasant from the South, or a mountaineer from Piedmont, or a fisherman from the Adriatic Riviera... There is also a one in 200.000 chance - that is how many unidentified bodies there were at the end of the Great War - that it could be precisely that irredentist lieutenant, son of Maria Bergamas. We will never know...
One hundred years ago the journey of the Unknown Soldier towards the Vittoriano began
Reading the chronicles, it almost seems like you are in another world: «the Commission carefully explored all the places where the fighting had taken place and a body was chosen for each of the following areas: Rovereto, Dolomites, Altipiani, Grappa, Montello, Basso Piave, Cadore, Gorizia, Basso Isonzo, San Michele, from Castagnevizza to the sea. The eleven bodies were initially taken to Gorizia, from where they were then transported to the Basilica of Aquileia on 28 October 1921. Here the choice of the body destined for glorious repose on the Altar of the Fatherland was made. The choice was made by a commoner, Maria Bergamas from Trieste, whose son Antonio had deserted from the army...
Unknown Militi, women tell the Son of Italy
On the occasion of the centenary of the burial of the Unknown Soldier at the Altar of the Fatherland in Rome, Idrovolante Edizioni is publishing a very special book. Titled “Ignoto Militi”, it is a collection of writings all signed by women authors. “Because if the Unknown Soldier is a son of Italy – we read on the back cover – women are his girlfriends, wives, daughters, mothers. Mothers like Maria Bergamas, who gave the life of her son Antonio to the Fatherland and who was charged with choosing, from eleven coffins of nameless fallen soldiers, the one that was taken to the Vittoriano in Rome. And which is still there, to symbolize the eternity of the sacrifice of...
Centenary of the Unknown Soldier: a train will repeat the 1921 journey
From Aquileia to Rome. Guerini: 'A unifying moment in our history' One hundred years later - between October 29 and November 2 - a 'Train of Memory' will retrace the journey of the special convoy that in 1921 carried the body of the Unknown Soldier from Aquileia to Rome, where he was buried on November 4 in the shrine of the Altar of the Fatherland, at the Vittoriano. It was one of the unifying events of the Nation, with over a million people who flocked to pay their respects to the coffin along the 120 stages of the journey. "This year we will relive, without any rhetoric, that important moment in our history when the country found itself united. We need to reconnect the threads after the dramatic experience of the...
