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Pula, the registers of the City Cemetery and the Navy Cemetery have been digitized
The Historical and Naval Museum of Istria has completed an important operation of public interest, both for private citizens and for researchers studying Pula's past. Eleven Burial Registers have been digitized, namely nine from the City Cemetery of Pula, two from the Naval Cemetery. This is a project funded by the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, the Museum in question and the municipal funeral services company Monte Giro and the results are now available online. The full article in the online newspaper Istra24 can be read...
The Istrian railway will be reborn
First concrete steps for the renewal of the Istrian railway between the border with Slovenia and Pula, inaugurated in 1876 during the Austro-Hungarian era. The 50-kilometer section between Pinguente and San Pietro in Selve will be rebuilt, the cost of the work to be carried out over a 3-year period is around 55 million euros. The management of the Italian State Railways has announced a public tender for the reconstruction of the 50-kilometer section between Pinguente and San Pietro in Selve, a town in the heart of Istria. According to forecasts, the work should last 3 years from the opening of the construction site. As specified in the press release from the management itself, new rails and sleepers will be laid,...
Lodovico Rizzi, the mayor who designed the Pola of the twentieth century
“He was a politician who determined the contemporary history of our territory”. With these words, the director of the Historical Research Centre of Rovinj Raul Marsetič managed to highlight the figure of the historical mayor of Pula Lodovico Rizzi, a fundamental figure for the growth and development of the city of Arena between the 1859th and 1945th centuries, but who too many still do not know, or know too little about. Words, those of Raul Marsetič, pronounced yesterday evening at the Community of Italians of Pula, where in front of a very large audience the book From the Kaiser to the Duce: Lodovico Rizzi (XNUMX-XNUMX) – An Austro-Italian career of Frank... was presented.
Pula Arena nominated for UNESCO World Heritage Site
Although it is considered the most important cultural and historical monument in Croatia, the Pula Arena, built in 27 BC, is not listed among the world's cultural heritage sites. However, it is the sixth largest Roman amphitheater in the world and the only one with all three architectural orders completely preserved. The Arena was first nominated for UNESCO heritage in 1996. At that time, ICOMOS, the professional and scientific advisory body of the UNESCO Commission, assessed that the monument did not meet the requirements for the leap in quality because the partial restoration works carried out between the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries had not...
The director who first dared to tell the story of the Istrian exodus
When it was released in cinemas in 1948, "La città dolente" had little success, but Mario Bonnard's work later became a valuable document on the exodus from Pola and on the conditions of Istria in the immediate post-war period, when in Zone B the Yugoslav military administration actually manifested itself as the first stage of an increasingly obvious annexation to communist Yugoslavia well before the official decisions of the Peace Conference. Free -...
“The Little Girl with the Suitcase”, a story by Egea Haffner
"This is how a long, exciting and overwhelming journey began for Egea and me, which led us to get to know each other and become friends. It takes courage to tell a historical moment that is still the subject of fierce discussions. It takes trust to open the treasure chest of family memories and share them with young readers. It takes a careful look at the past, but firmly projected into the future. It takes meaning, energy, emotion. It takes Egea Haffner". The words of the writer Gigliola Alvisi, contained in the preface of La bambina con la valigia, in bookstores for a few days (Piemme), reveal the genesis of the project: to write and publish the first book for children and...
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...
Dante, a bridge between exiles and those who remained
The international conference hosted in the spaces of the CI of Pula, saw the participation of historians and literary scholars, who provided insights and perspectives on Dante's work. The Divine Comedy is also a journey through Italy. Dante speaks of Sicily, Etna and Scylla and Charybdis. He evokes the fortune of the land of Puglia and Lombardy. He talks about Tuscany and Romagna. And he quotes "... Sì com'a Pola vicino del Carnaro, ch'Italia chiusi e suoi termini bagna". "So, what better place than Pula to dedicate a conference to the Supreme Poet?", must have thought the leaders of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia (ANVGD),...
103 years ago the sinking of the Viribus Unitis in Pula
In Pola, one of the most memorable feats, to the detriment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, by the precursors of the Italian Navy's special forces On a moonless night, between October 31 and November 1, 1918, one of the most memorable feats was accomplished by the precursors of the Navy's Special Forces. In that phase of the First World War, the Austro-Hungarian Navy, avoiding a head-on clash, preferred to keep its major units safe in the well-defended base of Pola. The Italian Navy then developed a daring plan to strike enemy ships directly in their ports, engaging in the development of insidious units such as,...
The never-ending drama of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia in the post-war period
As part of the initiatives of the Working Group for the knowledge of the history of the Istrian, Fiuman and Dalmatian Exiles, the General Directorate of School Regulations, Evaluation and Internationalization of the National Education System, in collaboration with the Associations of Istrian, Fiuman and Dalmatian Exiles, organizes the XI National Seminar aimed at teachers of schools of all levels, aimed at deepening a historical period particularly significant for the populations involved. The 2021 Seminar is entitled "The endless drama of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia in the post-war period" and will take place in Trieste from 25 to 28 October: the...
