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From the depths of the Foibe to the depths of memory
In the collective imagination and in everyday life, the Fire Brigade represents the most solid shield protecting the population. A body that doesn't question danger, but rather faces it, driven by an ethic of service that goes beyond professional duty. Yet, there is a lesser-known but profoundly dramatic chapter in their history, in which their mission was not to save the living, but to restore dignity to the dead: the recovery of bodies from the Foibe (foibe) of Istria and Julian. Journalist Viviana Facchinetti discusses this topic extensively in her book ... because the FIREFIGHTERS are always there. Trieste and its firefighters through centuries of history, current events...
The memory of the Julian-Dalmatian exiles in the world
"I started almost by instinct, realizing that there was a huge wealth of memories and experiences that very few knew about." Thus Viviana Facchinetti, journalist and writer, editor of the monthly magazine of the Association of Italians of Pula and Istria - Free Municipality of Pula in Exile, L'Arena di Pola, describes the extensive research and dissemination work dedicated to the history of the Julian-Dalmatian exodus around the world, presented to the Chamber of Deputies during a press conference on the eve of Remembrance Day. Facchinetti, the author of numerous investigations, publications, and documentaries on the eastern border, recalled how it all began in 1985, on the other side...
Pula Arena February 2022 Published
Dear Readers of L'ARENA DI POLA, dear Members of AIPI-LCPE, a practically monographic issue on the celebrations of the Day of Remembrance that of the Arena in February, the shortest month, which unfortunately leaves us with a burden that is certainly not light. Covid and Ukraine. Hope and fear. While the wishes still resounded many times and at every event pronounced evoking the dark moments of the 900th century: "so that it does not happen again, so that it never happens again..." here is the explosive crescendo of the word war... unfortunately not only pronounced. With the hope of better times, the summary of the Arena in distribution: • The Day of Remembrance in the Senate - chronicle experienced first-hand...
Pula Arena January 2022
Dear Friends and Readers of L'ARENA DI POLA, Dear Members of AIPI-LCPE, As has been repeatedly emphasized, the editorial times of a monthly magazine are in conflict with current events. However, we try to keep up with the times and L'Arena in January can report the news of Sergio Mattarella's re-election as President of the Republic. Time and its value, as always in the themes of the Arena for information, news, history, current events, the voice and memories of our readers. Some previews of the summary of the January issue being distributed: • Sergio Mattarella re-elected President of the Republic • Small but more than a hundred years old – the anniversary of the daily newspaper...
Pula Arena December 2021
Dear Friends Readers of L'ARENA DI POLA, dear Members of AIPI-LCPE, It is the fifth Christmas that sees us together, ever more cordially in contact. With the best wishes of all of us, attached to the paper edition of this issue, you will receive as a Christmas gift, the 2022 calendar. It is a special calendar, because it offers a collection of some beautiful and significant reproductions of Leonardo Bellaspiga's inks, in which to find - quoting the presentation of his daughter Lucia, the well-known correspondent of Avvenire, but above all our dear friend - the charm of a thousand-year-old history, which in the lands of Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia has woven cultures, languages and architectural styles,...
Pula Arena in November 2021
Dear Readers of L'ARENA DI POLA, dear Members of AIPI-LCPE, Pages of news and current affairs; feelings, memories and tradition in the November atmosphere. There are many themes that can be read about in the issue of L'Arena di Pola that is being distributed. Some previews of the summary: • President Mattarella in Friuli Venezia Giulia • The 130th anniversary of the National League and the history of Trieste by Stefano Pilotto • “Emotions from Umag” at the concert • The commemorative bell for the Arsia tragedy has arrived at its destination • The Race of Remembrance: the message of an appointment with sport • Pula 2 November: celebration of the Day of the Deceased...
Pula Arena October 2021
Dear Friends Readers of L'ARENA DI POLA, dear Members of AIPI-LCPE, Around the white of the karst stone, the red of the sumac intertwines with the color of the evergreens ... it is the natural tricolor of autumn, which has framed moments shared in the pages of the October Arena, with history, news and feelings. Some previews of the summary: the 67th anniversary of the return of Trieste to Italy October 26, 1954: lights and shadows in the memory of that day by Anna Maria Crasti The Commemoration of the Deceased in Pula The national competition February 10 The emotions of Furio Benussi: Istrian origins, winner of the Barcolana for the fifth time the dedication to the Barcolana in the...
Pula Arena September 2021
Dear Friends Readers of L'ARENA DI POLA, dear Members of AIPI-LCPE, September has been a month full of events, changes and anniversaries, linked to the Julian Dalmatian reality and, as usual, followed by our Arena in order to be able to report them. After expectations, hopes and postponements, it was finally possible to hold the meeting in Pola of the Polesani Sparnissadi. ...And meeting again is always an emotion, as the title on the front page says, which features the greeting of the newly elected AIPI-LCPE president Some previews of the summary: • The greeting of the newly elected president • The symbolic photo of a heartbreak - from Canada the news on the man captured in the shot at...
Presentation of “Truth Infoibate” in Bergamo
The President of the Provincial Committee of Bergamo of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, Prof. Maria Elena Depetroni, is pleased to announce that on Friday 1 October at 18:00 pm in the Sala dei Mille of the Hotel Excelsior San Marco (Piazzale della Repubblica, 6 - Bergamo) the presentation of Verità infoibate. The victims, the executioners, the silences of politics (Milan 2021) will take place in collaboration with the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Exiles and with the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Culture. Introduced by Prof. Depetroni, the authors of the book Fausto Biloslavo and...
Pula Arena August 2021
Dear Friends and Readers of L'ARENA DI POLA, dear Members of AIPI-LCPE, WITH POLA IN THE HEART is the title that opens the August issue of the newspaper. Not only the reconfirmation of an emotional bond between all of us, but also a bit of a summary of the greeting to members and readers by the AIPI-LCPE president, taking leave at the end of his four-year mandate, on the eve of the elections for the renewal of the association positions. As always, also in this issue pages attentive to events, news, history, news and memories related to the Julian Dalmatian reality. Some previews of the summary: - Greetings from president Sidari - Opinions and considerations of the participants in the Summer School...
