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,…
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…
In June 2019 the Free Trieste Movement hosted in the club at the first floor of its piazza della Borsa 7 office the historical photo exhibit “1914-18: Trieste and Austria-Hungary’s submarines” organized by Civiltà Mitteleuropea and curated by Alessandro Mlach.…
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…
15 September 1916, hell on Altitude 208 North: Oberleutnant Johann Fousek (K.u.K. I.R. 102, IV Battalion). “Retreat or surrender? Counterattack.” On 15 September 1916, in the middle of the battle for Altitude 208 North. The Italians call the two Altitudes…
The defense of our independent State, the Free Territory of Trieste, does also require taking our history back, to affirm our history. Which means, not the history that Italy forced in the schools of the Free Territory of Trieste. Schools…