Lots of people, under a bright sun, around the liston, to attend the ceremony on April 25th. A day of memory, celebration and reflection, which once again attracted many people from Rovigno, of all ages. For a glance, that of the square while the Tricolor was hoisted on the flagpole prepared for the occasion in front of Palazzo Nodari, truly special.
Immediately before, in the council chamber in the presence of the prefect Clemente Di Nuzzo, the president Enrico Ferrarese, who did the house honors by opening the day’s work, and the commissioner of the Municipality of Rovigo represented by Fabrizio Cesarino, the official speeches were held.
Ferrarese spoke about the value of sacrifice and the human struggle that led to the Liberation, addressing in particular the younger ones, recalling how “the moment of barbarism and violence is not so distant in time and can always recur. The Resistance cured Italy in a moment of illness, saving the country.”
Cesarino instead dedicated a brief passage in his greeting to the centenary of Matteotti while Di Nuzzo placed the emphasis on the path that led from the Resistance to the Constitution and which exalts freedom, equality, inclusion and civil rights, at the basis of the Republic.
In the morning, after Pietro Rigolin’s speech, mayor of the children of the Municipality of Lendinara, continued with the screening of the docufilm “Icons of Resistance”, created by the ICS of Lendinara and presented by the pprofessor Francesca Morelli – work which also inspired a photographic calendar – before the intervention of Professor Marina Cattaneo, vice-president of the Anna Kuliscioff Foundation in Milan who closed with a flash on the Resistance which “began as early as 1921 and had his standard bearer in Matteotti, a man against violence and totalitarianism” also recalling the contribution to the Liberation given by the Matteotti Brigades, one of whose commanders was the former President of the Republic Sandro Pertini.
The scene then moved to the nearby Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II for the usual and symbolic flag-raising ceremony to end with a short procession that touched the plaque at the Gran Guardia palace and Piazza Matteotti, where wreaths of flowers were placed. Also present in Piazza Matteotti was the niece of the Polesine martyr killed one hundred years ago by fascist barbarity, Elena Matteotti.
Many, over thirty, Polesine municipalities have joined the official request received from the Province of Rovigo to include the program of the celebrations of April 25th in a joint poster: these are Adria, Ariano nel Polesine, Arquà Polesine, Badia Polesine, Bergantino, Canaro, Canda, Castelguglielmo, Castelmassa, Castelnovo Bariano, Corbola, Crespino, Ficarolo, Fiesso Umbertiano , Frassinelle Polesine, Fratta Polesine Gaiba, Gavello, Lendinara, Loreo, Melara, Occhiobello, Pontecchio Polesine, Porto Tolle, Rosolina, Salara, San Martino di Venezze, Stienta, Taglio di Po, Trecenta, Villamarzana and Villanova del Ghebbo.
