Siena: ceremony for the conferral of honorary citizenship to the unknown soldier
Siena, today at the Loggia dei Nove in Palazzo Pubblico was held, in the presence of city authorities and representatives of the police, the ceremony for the conferral of honorary citizenship on the unknown soldier. The decision was reached in the City Council on 30 September, with a resolution unanimously, to confer honorary citizenship on the “Unknown Soldier – Gold Medal for Military Valor”.
In view of tomorrow 4 November, the centenary of the transfer and solemn burial of the Unknown Soldier in the shrine of the Altare della Patria, the Anci (National Association of Italian Municipalities) had reported this commemorative initiative to all the mayors of the provincial capitals to promote the possibility of conferring honorary citizenship on the Unknown Soldier, a request accepted by the Sienese City Council.
The ceremony was opened by the greetings of president of the municipal council Marco Falorni who posed the figure “of that brave soldier, initially wanted as no one, and then immediately as everyone else” and, now on, “we will feel it even more ‘we will feel it from Siena”. Falorni, after recalling the interest of the Anci and “in the Sienese seat from Assoarma”, who addressed the mayor who in turn “wrote to the president in order to promptly interest the city council which responded in a compact manner ”, Deliberating the conferral of honorary citizenship unanimously on 30 September.
“It is an honor to the army and the armed forces – said the mayor of Siena Luigi De Mossi – The unity of Italy must never be taken for granted, like the unity of the population. Reaffirming these values and principles, consecrated through unprecedented losses during the First World War, is a founding value of our country. He must remind us that there are values that cannot be forgotten, such as homeland love and respect for people ”.