Saturday 22 June the members of Marche Official Clubs, accompanied by family and friends, with their president, Army Corps general Nicolò Falsapernaformer Secretary General of Defense and National Director of Armaments, went visiting the city of Corridonia, welcomed by the mayor, madam Giuliana Giampaoliand by his partner Col. Ing. Marco Maria Contardi who proposed to his colleagues to carry out the traditional one annual meeting of the Association in his city.
Gathered in the Council Hall in the Town Hall – previously called the Empire Hall, consisting of a ceiling and a floor decorated to reproduce the Pantheon of Rome, with the back wall barely revealing the fresco called “We’ll go straight” of the artist Ciarlantini, depicting Mussolini on horseback with a dragon at his feet and mechanical eagles in the futurist manner – received the welcome greeting from the mayor and then listened to the historical re-enactment of the city by Doctor Modestino Ciacciurri.
General Falsaperna then took the floor to thank them for their welcome and to remind them that the members of the club – junior, senior and general officers of the Armed Forces and the Guardia di Finanza, in service and on leave – have all left their native countries at a young age, to serve in different locations at home or abroad, in different operational theaters or in international organizations and thanks to their partnership they thus have the opportunity to learn about the unknown stories and specificities of the many important places in their region of birth.
Having left the Council Chamber, General Falsaperna and the mayor have placed two laurel wreaths at the monument of the unionist hero Filippo Corridoni and to the shrine of Captain Eugenio Niccolai, both decorated with a gold medal for military valour, who died in the First World War.
This was followed by a visit to the Historic Municipal Theater “GB Velluti”, included among the historic theaters of the Marche regiondedicated to the last of the great “sopranists” Giovan Battista Velluti – born in the then Montolmo in 1780, died near Venice in 1861 – and then the visit to the birthplace of Corridoni, who in 1931 gave his name to the city, which instead in 1851 she left her old name of Montolmo to become Pausula.
The rallies then went to San Claudio where, led by Domenico Antognozzi (known as Mimmo), president of the Don Carnevale Study Center, they visited the ancient and famous Abbey and listened to the compelling presentation of the interesting thesis which identifies the great and powerful Aachen of the Carolingian Empire precisely in the territories of the ancient city of Pausulae.
A convivial meeting followed in the San Claudio restaurant at the end of which the mayor, the councilor Massimo Cesca, intervened to deliver the farewell greetings. After the ritual toast, Councilor Cesca and General Falsaperna exchanged symbolic memories and everyone headed back to their residences, awaiting the next meeting in the Marche.
