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The President of the Senate Larussa at the National Monument of the Basovizza Foiba
The President of the Senate of the Republic Ignazio Larussa reached Trieste today (Thursday, February 9). Welcomed by the mayor Roberto Dipiazza and the prefect Pietro Signoriello in Basovizza, President La Russa laid a laurel wreath and knelt on the National Monument of the Foiba of Basovizza, paying homage and honoring the victims of the foibe, in the presence of a picket of the 2nd Piedmont Cavalry. The brief ceremony was also attended by the Hon. Nicole Matteoni, the regional councilor Fabio Scoccimarro, the vice president of the Regional Council Francesco Russo, the regional councilor Claudio Giacomelli, the municipal councilor Maurizio De Blasio, the...
Management of Basovizza Foiba extended to National League
The Municipality of Trieste, in order to compensate for the periods of forced closure during the periods in which the Covid-19 pandemic was most severe, has granted the National League a 7-month extension in the management of the Documentation Center of the National Monument of the Foiba of Basovizza.
Recognition of the Tragedies of the Past and a Shared Future between Italy and Slovenia
A year ago, the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella and his Slovenian counterpart Borut Pahor paused for a minute of silence in front of the Basovizza Foiba. Starting from that symbolic place, Italy and Slovenia began to look no longer at what divides, but at what unites, with particular reference to the deaths and upheavals caused by Tito's communist dictatorship, both in Venezia Giulia and in Slovenia. To seal this sharing, the Mayor of Trieste Roberto Dipiazza, in whose mandates not only the day of July 13, 2020 but also the Concert of the Three Presidents took place, awarded President Pahor the highest...
Ceremony of the Day of Remembrance at the Basovizza Foiba
On Wednesday 10 February, the usual ceremony of the Day of Remembrance at the National Monument of the Foiba in Basovizza (TS) took place with a limited number of attendees due to the Covid emergency. The Mayor of Trieste Roberto Dipiazza, the Bishop of the Julian diocese Giampaolo Crepaldi, the President of the Committee for the Martyrs of the Foibe Paolo Sardos Albertini, the President of the autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia Massimiliano Fedriga and the Prefect of Trieste Valerio Valenti spoke. The President of the Multimedia Documentation Center for the Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian Culture Renzo Codarin declared that «the speeches of the authorities who attended were...
Reflections on the sidelines of July 13th in Trieste
Considering the importance of the event that took place on July 13 in Trieste, we anticipate in part the intervention on the matter by the President of the Society of Fiumani Studies Giovanni Stelli, whose article will be published in the next special issue of the Adriatic studies magazine “FIUME” REFLECTIONS ON THE MARGINS MATTARELLA AND PAHOR IN BASOVIZZA, CROATIA AND THE EUROPEAN DAY OF COMMEMORATION OF THE VICTIMS OF TOTALITARIAN REGIMES The ceremony in Basovizza on July 13 with Mattarella and Pahor On July 13 of this year, as widely reported by all the mass media, the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella and the President of the...
July 13th in Trieste: an important date, but still many issues to resolve
Within the National Council of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, which met on Tuesday 30 June via videoconference, in order to allow councillors from all over Italy to participate in compliance with the current health provisions, a document was approved regarding the imminent joint visit of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella and his Slovenian counterpart Borut Pahor to Trieste. After having focused attention in previous communications on the visit of the two Heads of State to the National Monument of the Foiba of Basovizza, the ANVGD intended to endorse an open letter released by Davide...
There is still an under-representation of our history
Interview by Andrea Altin with Senator Maurizio Gasparri on the occasion of the 2020 Day of Remembrance ceremony which took place on Monday 10 February at the Basovizza Foiba National Monument. Senator, in your speech on the occasion of the solemn ceremony at the Basovizza foiba you referred to the period in which our history remained the subject of conversation for a few «There were many who knew what had happened in the eastern border areas, but there were few who had the courage to talk about it. Ever since I was a boy, the discussion of the exodus and the foibe was limited to a certain number of circles where politics was done» Now...
