3.45pm – Thursday 25 April 2024
Celebrated in Trento on 25 April. Also present were the president of the autonomous province of Trento and the health councilor. The president’s speech. The president of the Autonomous Province of Trento participated this morning in Trento in the celebrations for April 25th. Together with him also the provincial health councilor, as well as the mayor of the capital city, the government commissioner Filippo Santarelli, the deputy police commissioner of Trento Andrea Vitalone, numerous civil and military authorities and a large participation of citizens.
In his speech the president – recalling how the date of 25 April should not be considered the prerogative of a single political area but is a shared heritage to be safeguarded and defended together – underlined the need, in a scenario characterized by conflicts at the gates of Europe , to look at what moved the men and women in April 1945 who, having returned from dramatic years, managed to rebuild the country, strengthened by their newfound freedom and animated by the desire for peace and democracy. The president also recalled the impact that the nationalist and centralist dimensions had on the autonomy and history of Trentino, on the rights denied to linguistic minorities, hoping that today, faced with unprecedented difficulties, solutions can be found that put an end to the conflicts in respect for freedoms and peoples.
The celebrations opened with the solemn mass in memory of the fallen celebrated in the church of San Francesco Saverio. From here the ceremony moved to via Belenzani for the laying of laurel wreaths on the tombstones of the fallen in Palazzo Thun. The procession – accompanied by the City of Trento Musical Corps – then moved in the direction of Piazza della Portela, and then made homage to the fallen with a stop at the Provincial Palace, at the Partisans gallery and in Piazza Pasi, to finally conclude his journey at Palazzo Geremia, where the commemoration ceremony was held in the reception hall, opened by the performance of the Bella choir HI.
The mayor of Trento, the president of the autonomous province of Trento, the government commissioner Santarelli, the director of the Fondazione Museo Storico del Trentino, Giuseppe Ferrandi, and the president of the Trentino section of the National Association of Partisans of Italy spoke here. Mario Cossali.
At this link the full speech of the president of the Autonomous Province of Trento.
