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The Go!2025 experience is also taking center stage in North Macedonia.
We enthusiastically shared the GO!2025 experience with Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, which will be the European Capital of Culture in 2028. Together with the mayor of Nova Gorica, Samo Turel, and representatives of Gect GO and Zavod, I accepted the invitation to participate in an intense two-day discussion of the challenges and opportunities this prestigious title brings. It was an opportunity to learn about the stories and symbols of the Macedonian city, led by its mayor, Orce Gjorgjievski, and to speak at Europe House Skopje about how our European Capital of Culture, the first cross-border one in history, has made us a...
Rodolfo Ziberna's mystery novel "The Last Contract" reprinted
The re-edition of the first mystery/thriller novel written by the current mayor of Gorizia Rodolfo Ziberna and published 25 years ago, entitled “L'ultimo contratto”, has been presented. The work, now unobtainable in bookstores also due to the critical success and sales it achieved at the time, has been re-edited by Goliardica Editrice of Trieste and the author's proceeds will be donated to charity. The story. At 46, Luca Florio is a man who has made it. He has managed to achieve success, money and power. However, he keeps a secret that he cannot reveal to anyone, not even to his wife Giulia, an ambitious and fascinating career woman. The search for justice is...
Gorizia: the history, our future
Seeing our territory at the center of national and international news not for the events of the past but for those of the future truly represents a historic turning point for Gorizia. Because this is the message that the two presidents Mattarella and Pahor present today in our land wanted to give: Gorizia and Nova Gorica represent the best Europe, the one that fights to build a tomorrow full of opportunities for its people, for young people, overcoming divisions and resentments. This is the point, not sterile speeches and good intentions but far-reaching projects, such as the European Capital of Culture, which will lead to a great turning point, also economic for the entire territory....
The tourist impact of Gorizia European Capital of Culture
With the European Capital of Culture in 2025, hundreds of thousands of tourists will arrive and we will not only have to be able to welcome them adequately but also to amaze them so that they return in subsequent years. For this reason, we must deploy all our best resources, from operators in the hospitality sector to restaurateurs, from real estate agencies to cultural, sports and leisure associations. And then, in cascade, all the entities with which to create synergies to give our territory that true tourist dimension that heralds quantitative and qualitative economic growth. This keeping in mind that Gorizia, on this occasion, will be the center of gravity of a...
Gorizia, heroes without borders
In many areas on the border between Italy and Slovenia, there was - finally - a climate of osmosis. The measures introduced to limit the pandemic changed everything. Neither Rome nor Ljubljana were too worried. But there were those who, with creativity, "took the field" in favor of the complexity, interests and relationships of the cross-border areas. It was a schizophrenic year on the eastern border. The pandemic erased many of the certainties of a population that had begun to believe that the border no longer existed. On the one hand, comforting signals arrived from Gorizia, where local administrators did everything they could to continue to...
“Medaia de carton” for Rodolfo Ziberna
The "Ierimo del Filzi" Association, which brings together and maintains connections between former students of the "Fabio Filzi" boarding school in Grado (GO), which welcomed the children of refugees from Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia in the immediate post-war period, has awarded Rodolfo Ziberna the "Medaia de Carton". This is a symbolic honor that, in the spirit of a "climate of comradely, ancient friendship", the association attributes "with the affection, gratitude and consideration due to those who we believe have, with ability, intelligence, generosity, achieved appreciable goals, such as to bring prestige to the entire community". Ziberna was the provincial and national representative of the Association...
Gorizia European Capital of Culture also concerns Istria
CAPITAL OF CULTURE, WITH THE ITALIAN UNION THE INITIATIVES WILL ALSO ARRIVE IN ISTRIA Ziberna met with President Tremul: “Gorizia and Nova Gorica are already becoming an example for other border areas” Studying new initiatives together to bring the message of the first historic European Capital of Cross-Border Culture also to Istria. This is the proposal that the mayors of Gorizia and Nova Gorica, Rodolfo Ziberna and Klemen Miklavic, received from the president of the Italian Union, Maurizio Tremul, an organization that represents the Italian community in Slovenian and Croatian Istria. “Our goal – said Tremul – has always been to promote and...
Italianness and future prospects in the Eastern Adriatic
The De Gasperi Foundation - in collaboration with the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Fiuman and Dalmatian Exiles - is organizing an online meeting on the Day of Remembrance on Thursday, February 18 at 18:00 p.m. The discussion will be broadcast live on the page https://www.facebook.com/FondazioneDeGasperi/live and will be visible even for those who are not registered on Facebook; at the same address it will be possible to watch it again freely in streaming. After the initial greetings of Angelino Alfano, President of the De Gasperi Foundation, the following will speak to discuss the presence of Italianness and future prospects in the Eastern Adriatic: - Giuseppe De Vergottini,...
Gorizia European Capital of Remembrance
The Day of Remembrance is not only intended to commemorate the victims of the massacres committed by Tito's communist partisans, but also a moment of reflection on the centuries-old presence of Italianness in the eastern Adriatic, as well as a perspective on the future of this border region: the city of Gorizia embodies all these elements. This conviction emerged at the end of a video call between the mayor of the Julian capital Rodolfo Ziberna and Giuseppe de Vergottini, President of the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Exiles and of Coordinamento Adriatico APS, an association that deals with research and in-depth analysis...
Gorizia European Capital of Culture 2025 together with Nova Gorica
WITH THE CAPITAL OF CULTURE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR GROWTH FOR OUR CITY It was a difficult challenge, really. Because becoming the European Capital of Culture is not a game, you have to present a strong proposal, capable of convincing an international jury. We beat very strong opponents like Ljubljana and Piran and we succeeded thanks to the uniqueness of our territory, our border. Neither Gorizia nor Nova Gorica, alone, for different reasons, could have done it. But what will happen now? Now there are many projects to develop, in the territory, which will contribute to relaunching the economy and employment, a bit like what happened in Matera. There will be...
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