A little known aspect of the First World War regards the Italian air raids against Trieste, then first port of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire.

January 27th and April 25th: the celebrations. From fascism to the ambiguities of the Italian left’s “democratic nationalism”.
At our dear Anita’s funeral, the Roman Catholic priest denied to cover her coffin with the “inconvenient” flag of the Free Territory of Trieste.
The awakening of the people of Trieste worries those who, hidden behind anachronistic nationalism, have profited from Trieste’s ruin for decades.
The Italian legal order recognizes the Free Territory of Trieste and its international Free Port since 1947. Politicians can deny it, but they cannot change it.
Trieste is an independent State in the heart of Central Europe, with its strategic International Free Port. A land of rights and justice.