On the morning of 13 June, celebrations took place for the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of the city of Terni, organized by the Municipality together with the Anpc, Anpi and Anppia.
“On 13 June 1944 – we read in the note – after the last clashes in the city between small groups of partisans and civilians and the German rearguards, which unfortunately saw the death of Aspromonte Luzzi in the attempt to save the Garibaldi bridge from destruction, the Wehrmacht retreated from Terni. The English avant-garde, coming from Flaminia, and the partisans of the Gramsci Brigade coming from Valserra along the railway line were brought to the city. In the finally liberated city, after twenty years of fascist dictatorship and a war to which Terni had paid a very high price of blood and destruction, the Cln organized an embryo of the first democratic city administration, which assumed the powers trying to give an initial response to the need of the citizens, in a semi-destroyed and deprived Terni”.
In memory of these events, a procession made up of associations and citizens traveled along Viale Brin, Piazzale Buozzi and Corso Vecchio to reach Piazza della Repubblica, where the institutional ceremony took place, with the intervention of the president of the Anpi ’13 June section ‘ Nicola Zingarelli, the deputy mayor Riccardo Corridore and the historian Angelo Bitti, in the presence of the authorities and the bishop of Terni. The procession then moved to the Partisans roundabout, the Garibaldi bridge, the Alfredo Filipponi roundabout and the ‘Belvedere 13 Giugno’, to remember and pay homage to all the protagonists of those days.
