Liberation Day in the cemeteries of SEFIT Utilitalia in Italy

As part of the Italian Cemeteries Enhancement Activities, the ‘Monuments and Headstones Tell the Story of the Liberation’ project honors the Italian Resistance during World War II.

About the project

April 25 marks the anniversary of Italy's Liberation, marking the end of the Nazi occupation and the fall of the Fascist regime in 1945. The Italian public cemeteries of Utilitalia Sefit's Historical, Artistic, and Tourism Enhancement Working Group (WG) tell, through their headstones and monuments, the stories of many partisans, civilian victims, and all those who fell for Freedom within and beyond their walls.

In this year's project, the WG for the Enhancement of Cemeteries uses the red poppy as a symbol of remembrance as the underlying theme in the short video. Indeed, the National Association of Italian Partisans (ANPI) recognizes the red poppy as the symbol of the partisan. But it is also the symbol of the fallen in war, for the red color of the blood spilled on the battlefields, and it is the symbol of the strength of nature and of the Resistance because it is a spontaneous flower that blooms even among the rubble.

It doesn't have many images and captions, but by scanning the QR code included for each city, you can access more detailed information on the headstones, tombs, ceremonies, and events.

With this eight-and-a-half-minute video, we share the social energy of our work online.

Events in the Italian's cemeteries during WDEC 2019

Utilitalia-SEFIT counts among its members the public companies that manage the most important Italian monumental crematoriums and cemeteries, which constitute an architectural and artistic heritage of great value.

The Utilitalia-Sefit Technical Table for the historical and artistic enhancement of the Italian monumental cemeteries, on the occasion of the annual "WDEC Week for the discovery of European cemeteries" has foreseen the publication of a brochure that collects all the activities organized by 11 Italian cemeteries (the Certosa di Bologna, the Staglieno of Genoa, the Cemetery of Trento, the Monumental of Turin, the Cemetery of the Villetta of Parma, the Monumental of Milan, the Certosa of Ferrara, the Crematorium Socrem Turin, the Cemeteries of Bolzano, the Monumental of Mantua and the Verano of Rome).

The creation of a photographic exhibition set up or visible in digital format at all the participating cemeteries, which presents some images representative of the cemeteries themselves, is added to the strategy of shared promotion and communication at national level.

Have a look at the video-presentation!

Just let's see what's going on...here is the full Program

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WDEC 2019 Spoon River on the banks of the river Po in Turin (IT)

4/6/19 Monumental cemetery of Turin - "Spoon River on the banks of the PO"
An appointment with the final representation of the creative writing workshop on the collective memory kept at the cemetery, created by AFC Torino SpA, edited by the writer Culicchia with music by Li Calzi and the words of the boys of Liceo D'Azeglio. After reading Lee Master's famous anthology and visiting the graves of some characters belonging to the culture of the city and the country, from Silvio Pellico to Macario and Fred Buscaglione, on the wave of suggestions and emotions, the students of the third classical high school of Professor Marco Vacchetti, followed by Culicchia, have released their poetic creativity.
Free entry from Via Varano 39.

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