Coriano inaugurates the “Martiri delle Foibe” square
The president of the Republic Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Mario Draghi will participate in the afternoon in the Senate in a celebration of ‘Remembrance Day‘set up to commemorate the drama of the exiles from Istria and Dalmatia and the tragedy of the sinkholes. Other commemorations on the Trieste Karst, in Monrupino and Basovizza, where there are some of the natural cavities where thousands of victims were thrown.
A Coriano the inauguration ceremony of the square in via Pedrelli, dedicated to Martyrs of the Foibe. A ceremony that saw the institutions, primarily the mayor Sunday Spinelli, together with law enforcement, volunteer and elementary school pupils.
“With words we define reality, our world, but they are also important because they act, they make something happen when we pronounce them. Here, then, is the sense of memory, the immediate return to the drama linked to February 10, which the national law has rightly set up come day in which we preserve and renew the memory of the tragedy of the Italians and of all the victims of sinkholesof the exodus from their lands of Istrians, Rijeka and Dalmatians after World War II, and of the whole affair of the eastern border “. Thus the president of the Emilia-Romagna Region, Stefano Bonaccini, “We are urged to recall that past – continues the president – to become custodians and take care of that tragedy today, so that similar events no longer have to happen.