Yesterday morning 13 June the celebrations for the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of the city of Terni took place, organized by the Municipality of Terni together with the ANPC (National Association of Christian Partisans), the ANPI (National Association of Partisans of Italy) and to the ANPPIA (National Association of Persecuted Italian Anti-Fascist Politicians).
On 13 June 1944, after the last clashes in Terni between small groups of partisans and civilians and the German rearguards, which unfortunately saw the death of Aspromonte Luzzi in the attempt to save Ponte Garibaldi from destruction, the Wehrmacht retreated from Terni; The English avant-garde arrived in the city, coming from Flaminia, and the partisans of the Gramsci Brigade coming from Valserra along the railway line. In the finally liberated city, after twenty years of fascist dictatorship and a war to which it had paid a very high price of blood and destruction, the CLN (National Liberation Committee) organized an embryo of the first democratic city administration, which assumed the powers trying to give an initial response to the needs of citizens, in a semi-destroyed and deprived Terni.
In memory of these events, a procession 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 prof. Angelo Bitti, in the presence of the authorities and the bishop of Terni, mons. Francesco Antonio Soddu.
The procession then moved to the Partisans roundabout, Ponte Garibaldi, the Alfredo Filipponi roundabout and the Belvedere 13 Giugno, to remember and pay homage to all the protagonists – partisans, allied troops, ordinary citizens – of those days which were both dramatic and joy and hope.
