Sanremo. «To the dearest Gino Guglielmi who, adoring her, knows everything about our beloved Sanremo», so wrote Carlo Daiuto in 1986.
Many in Sanremo still remember Gino Guglielmimultifaceted figure, pioneer of local TV, event organizer, secretary of the Sanremo Famija, journalist and local historian.
On Tuesday 30 April, at 4.30 pm, in the headquarters of the Workers’ Federation (Via Francesco Corradi, 47), in Sanremo, organized by the Official Lions Club of Italy in collaboration with the Famija Sanremasca, a meeting will take place which will remember the figure of Gino Guglielmi. There will be present, among others, Mino Casabianca, Anna Maria Ferrari, Paolo Pippione, Roberto Pecchinino, Walter Vacchino, Vincenzo Benza, moderated by Freddy Colt and the President of the Club Domenico Prevosto. Gianni Modena will read some texts by Gino Guglielmi.
His daughters Antonella and Laura Guglielmi will be present. During the meeting, images and videos will be projected, curated by Roberto Pecchinino.
The event is organized by the Official Lions Club of Italy in collaboration with the Famija Sanremasca.
Gino Guglielmi, brief biographical profile (1926-1993).
For years secretary of the Famija sanremasca, founder and first director of the Gardiora du Matussian, still an organ of the association.
A pioneer of local private TV, in the 70s and 80s he hosted highly successful broadcasts, which told of the disappeared Sanremo, which ended with the legendary Sanremo greeting Bona a vui. Among all, we remember Il rigulé.
A local journalist and historian, he is still remembered by many people who saw him on television or read about Secolo XIX or the many newspapers where he collaborated. Among his more in-depth studies, he published the first critical book on Antonio Rubino and his relationship with Sanremo. He had a particular interest in local characters, such as Benedetto Bresca or Edward Lear, or in historical events.
Entertainer and organizer of events, the Festopolis he created for the 1926 group are memorable. He created several sporting events and presided over various associations.
He is responsible for the current structuring of the feast of the patron saint San Romolo, promoted by the Famija Sanremasca, which also remembers him every two years with a dialect poetry prize named after him.
In recent years he was editor in chief of the newspaper “La Riviera”.
He was awarded a gold medal by the Municipality of Sanremo, on the occasion of the patron saint of 13 October 1975, with the following motivation:
«On the morning of April 25, 1945, while under the pressure of the American forces and the partisan insurrection, the German troops were abandoning Sanremo, an Allied naval formation appeared in the bay to shell our city, under the guidance of an aircraft scout.
Gino Guglielmi, having grabbed a box of signal rockets and a flare gun, intrepidly climbed the bell tower of San Siro and from the cockpit of the highest bell, while the bombardment continued, repeatedly launched with happy intuition a triple signal of three successive colours: red , white and green to make the pilot of the signal plane understand that Sanremo was now liberated.
After a few low flights to understand what was happening, the pilot signaled via radio to the fleet to suspend fire, while as a sign of greeting, he festively waved a scarf towards Guglielmi.”
