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Marked the Free Territory of Trieste – Italy State border

Marked the Free Territory of Trieste - Italy State border

Trieste, 11 March 2016. – Starting on 12 March 2016, the Free Trieste Movement is restoring the road signs on the two border crossings of the short State border between the Free Territory of Trieste and Italy, which runs for 4 kilometres not far away from the medieval castle of Duino-Devin, overhanging the Adriatic, and from Mount Hermada-Grmada, which has been the stronghold of Austrian-Hungarian resistance in World War I.

The present-day Free Territory of Trieste and its international Free Port, established with the 1947 Treaty of Peace with Italy, since 1954 are entrusted under a mandate of temporary civil administration to the Italian Government which, in order to simulate the sovereignty of the Republic of Italy, has removed the border signs which had been placed by the previous, Anglo-American administration (1947-54).

Since the sovereignty of the present-day Free Territory of Trieste and its borders with Italy are recognized both under international law and in the Italian legal system, Free Trieste won’t restore only the road signs, but also the flag of State of the Free Territory (a white halberd on a red background), and it is organising monthly sit-ins to both border crossings with its activists and informative materials.

The main border crossing is that of San Giovanni di Duino-Štivan, near the entrance of the paper mill; the secondary border crossing is on the above highway to Gorizia.

Press Office of the Free Trieste Movement

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