Trieste, 7 November 2020. – This year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the traditional public, pluri-religious (with Christian, Jewish, and Islamic rites) commemoration ceremony for the Austrian-Hungarian fallen of the 1914-18 World War from Trieste, from the Austrian Littoral, and…
“Trieste, city out of history: out of history because its characters testify the plurinational history of Mitteleuropa, while its name express nothing but nationalistic obsession”. Claus Gatterer, scholar (translation of a quote from book “L’identità cancellata” – “Cancelled identity” by…
21 August 1917, a young Viennese hero: Oberleutnant Friedrich Franek The 11th battle of the Isonzo is Cadorna’s last push on the southern Isonzofront before Caporetto. And it is the bloodiest all Great War battles on the southern front. The two…
On Sunday, 10 November 2019, at 11AM, in the Austro-Hungarian military cemetery of Prosek-Prosecco, on the Karst plateau of Trieste, takes place the traditional public commemoration of the Fallen and of the Soldiers of Austria-Hungary (army, navy, aviation) of Trieste,…
Facing the Hermada: from the war diary of Infanterieregiment Nr. 47 (K.u.K. 47) 25 May 1917, afternoon: the 10th battle of the Isonzo (LINK). Now the target of the Italians is definitively the Hermada. The greatest effort focuses on Valle…