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On June 2, 46, the people of Giulianova, Fiume and Zadar were unable to vote.
Of the 573 seats of the Constituent Assembly to be assigned and provided for by the Legislative Decree of the Lieutenant n. 74 of 10 March 1946, in reality only 556 were assigned, the 13 foreseen for the XII District (Trieste and Venezia Giulia – Zara) being missing, in addition to the 5 of the province of Bolzano. With a further Decree of the Lieutenant, only six days later, it was deemed impossible to hold elections in those border lands, due to the international situation. The founding moment of the Italian State emerging from the rubble of the conflict therefore took place without involving the citizens residing in lands that, until the deliberations...
The Race of Remembrance Returns to Trieste
The Corsa del Ricordo returns to Trieste, appointment on June 6, 2021, below are the rules REGULATIONS OF THE RACE OF REMEMBRANCE - TRIESTE The organizing committee "Trieste Corre", with the co-organization of the National League, the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Exiles and the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia and the Patronage of the autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia - Department of Tourism and the Municipality of Trieste, ORGANIZE On June 6, 2021 in Trieste at the Foiba di Basovizza, the 3rd edition of the "RACE OF REMEMBRANCE", a competitive running race on mixed asphalt/dirt terrain of approximately 8 km of a...
May 1, 1945 The foibe… a nightmare
May 1, 1945: Trieste is ready to celebrate the end of a long and painful war. The day before, the Volunteers of Freedom, the men of the CLN led by Don Marzari, took control of the city, taking it away from the German troops (and the mediation of the Bishop Monsignor Santin also managed to save the port and other structures of the city). The war is therefore over and the people of Trieste are preparing to celebrate peace, as is increasingly done throughout Italy and in much of Europe. But the reality they discover, that morning of May 1, is completely different. The new arrivals, the Yugoslavian communist troops of Marshal Tito, are not bearers of peace, they are...
April 25th was not a liberation for all Italians
On the day the Northern Italy National Liberation Committee unleashed the insurrection in Milan and in the other main cities now abandoned by the retreating Germans, in the far north-east the situation was very different. The Anglo-American troops were far from Venezia Giulia because, once the Gothic Line had been broken through, the priority was to reach the Brenner Pass and from there quickly get to Bavaria, where it was feared that the last desperate German resistance would be concentrated. Instead, the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia was marching at forced marches, more interested in reaching Trieste, Gorizia, Pola and Fiume than in regaining control of cities...
The Birth of the Armenian Community of Trieste
April 24, 1915 marked the beginning of the extermination of the Armenian community living within the Ottoman Empire: there had already been persecutions and oppression by the Young Turk Government, but during the First World War, a massacre of one and a half million people took place. Even before this catastrophe, the Armenian diaspora had spread throughout the world and Trieste, after the establishment of the Free Port in 1719, also welcomed an Armenian community that contributed to the development of the city. The birth of the Armenian community of Trieste: a difficult beginning (1770-1810) The growth of Trieste in the central years of the eighteenth century,...
Santin defensor civitatis of Trieste
The Piccolo was founded in Trieste to keep alive the feelings of Italian culture in the context of the Austro-Hungarian Empire with a liberal orientation. At the time, the government of the diocese of Trieste was governed by ecclesiastics proposed to the Pope by the Emperor, such as Bishops Monsignor Legat, Glavina, Nagl and Karlin. When the Empire fell in 1918 and Italy arrived, Karlin asked to be transferred from Italian territory and was then appointed Bishop of Maribor. The first Bishop of Trieste and Capodistria under the Italian Government was the Piedmontese Angelo Bartolomasi, already a military Bishop, who opted for the diocese of Pinerolo and left the Chair to Monsignor Luigi Fogar, secretary...
The exiles at the Silos in Trieste
Life at Palazzo Silos, by Annamaria Zennaro Marsi, tells the story of the author's childhood experience, an exile from Cherso, at the Silos in Trieste. The book, in addition to the author's original photographs, also contains fifteen videos from the time, accessible via the QR codes inserted in the text and viewable on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOLNXLgUdaQ&list=PL8I-L_FfF6oNgyhuen_Li9KbPL3McH9gs These are original videos from the time, filmed by Giuseppe "Pino" Fucci, an exile from Pola and also a guest at the Silos with his family for many years, and edited by Maria Grazia Fucci. The Silos in Trieste, once a grain depot and railway terminal at the time of the Empire...
Warehouse 26. An international museum hub is about to be born
The works on the second floor of the museum complex where the institution aimed at preserving and enhancing the traditions and historical and cultural heritage of the Italian populations of Istria will soon be set up have been completed. The spaces and museum services created on the second floor of Warehouse 26 in Porto Vecchio in Trieste have been presented and delivered. The works on the second floor were completed in recent days and will allow the museum material currently stored in Warehouse 18 to be moved and enhanced with the historical household goods of exiles from Istria and the Eastern Adriatic. An investment of 1 million euros. The following intervened on site:...
Remember, bring to heart
REMEMBER, BRING TO THE HEART, with Emanuele Fortunati, Ester Galazzi, Andrea Germani, Riccardo Maranzana, Francesco Migliaccio, Jacopo Morra, Maria Grazia Plos, edited by Paolo Valerio, video by Zunami Films Studio, directed by Giulio C. Ladini, video operator Matteo Bernardis, editing Enrico M. Lucarelli, the video shooting was made at Magazzino 18 (we thank IRCI – Regional Institute for Istrian Fiumana Dalmata Culture for the collaboration and the iconographic material); at the Documentation Center of the Shrine of the Foiba of Basovizza (we thank the National League for the collaboration); at the Refugee Collection Center of Padriciano (we thank for the...
Remembrance Day 2021 in Trieste
In the province of Trieste, on Remembrance Day, the following events will take place, organized on a smaller scale than in previous years, in light of the ongoing COVID-19 emergency and the related regulations. The associations have primarily used platforms that allow online participation, while the ceremonies will be held with limited public participation by invitation only. The institutional ceremony will take place on February 10, Remembrance Day, pursuant to Law 92 of March 30, 2004. Wednesday, February 10, 2021 9:45 a.m. Wreath-laying at Foiba No. 149 in Monrupino. 10:30 a.m. Ceremony...
