Even this year, due to the pandemic, the traditional pluri-religious commemoration for the Austrian-Hungarian fallen of the 1914-18 World War is postponed.
2020 Ceremony for the Austrian-Hungarian fallen from Trieste, from the Austrian Littoral, and from their brother folks
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…
A YOUNG VIENNESE HERO
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…
Trieste commemorates its Austro-Hungarian fallen on 10 November 2019
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,…
TIMAVO MAY 27th, 1917: THE FAILED VENTURE OF MAJOR GIOVANNI RANDACCIO AND THE FALSE TALE OF GABRIELE D’ANNUNZIO
The statue of Gabriele D’Annunzio, placed in Piazza della Borsa by the Municipality of Trieste. The warrior-poet hailed by Italian nationalists is one of the precursors of Fascism and of the racial persecutions that hit Trieste. The provocative inauguration ceremony…
STANISLAU WIERONSKI
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…