Today, also in Umbria, the anniversary of the Liberation of Italy is celebrated to remember the country’s liberation from the fascist regime and Nazi occupation during the Second World War. It is also the anniversary of the Resistance and is dedicated to the value of the partisans of all fronts who contributed to the liberation of Italy. The date was chosen by the Upper Italian National Liberation Committee because on 25 April the appeal for the armed insurrection of the city, seat of the partisan command, went out from Milan. From that moment the retreat of the German troops and the fascists of the Republic of Salò began after the breakthrough of the Gothic Line. Even the Umbrians today intend to preserve the values of the Resistance and ceremonies and processions are taking place in the major cities of the region to honor the memory of those who contributed to freeing Italy from years of dictatorship. A day to remember many dramatic stories such as that of the Foligno partisan Walter Del Carpio, originally from Serravalle del Chienti (Macerata) who wrote to his parents the evening before being shot. It was January 26, 1945 and it was sent from Pieve di Teco, in the province of Imperia, where he had been captured, together with 7 other partisans, during the Nazi-fascist roundups. “In these last hours that remain to me all my thoughts are with you, when these lines of mine reach you I will rest forever in this small cemetery and I beg you not to cry”, wrote Walter Del Carpio to his family. Bernardo Baldoni, president of the social center of Corvia di Foligno, exhumed a copy of the document written by the killed Foligno partisan in the days before the Liberation Day. “I found it by chance after over 20 years,” he told ANSA, showing the letter. Which he defines as “very topical”. “Today – says Baldoni – the prisoner soldiers who are fighting in Ukraine or in the Middle East could write it”. The last letter of the Foligno partisan was read to the fifth grade children of the Scafali di Foligno school which is part of the Monte Cervino educational club. “We created a project to remember April 25th, together with the grandparents of the Corvia Social Center – the teacher Maria Cristina Rosi told the ansa – it was a very intense moment, with the children who were very struck by the letter ”. Memory must remain alive, recalls Bernardo Baldoni, also in light of what is happening in the world with these wars. In Perugia the celebrations began this morning at the civic cemetery with the laying of laurel wreaths at the Shrine of the Fallen and on the tombs of the gold medals of the Resistance. They then continued in Borgo XX Giugno with the commemoration and deposition of laurel wreaths on the plaque in memory of the Patriots shot by the Nazis. In Terni, after the commemoration in the council room of Palazzo Spada, the deposition of the wreath and the formation of the procession that will go to Ponte Garibaldi is planned. In Foligno the day began at 9am at the Cancelli Shrine and, after a long journey through the symbolic places, the procession will reach the military cemetery of Rivotorto di Assisi. An Anpi procession is planned in Gubbio while military honors will be rendered in Spoleto by the Cengio Grenadiers in Piazza della Libertà. Celebrations and processions are also planned in Todi, Assisi, Magione, Gualdo Tadino, Umbertide, Castiglione del Lago to remember the liberation from the fascist regime.
