On April 25, numerous events are scheduled at the Monte Sole Historical Park in Marzabotto to celebrate Liberation Day. The initiatives have free admission and are linked to the themes of history, current affairs and memory: the aim is to remember and share the values of the Italian resistance and the principles of the Constitution.
Throughout the day, it will be possible to see photographic exhibitions and follow debates and interviews, as well as participate in concerts and visits to the Memorial.
The events will continue throughout the day and a road closure is planned from around 10 a.m. onwards. Monte Sole can also be reached by train (with the Bologna-Porretta line) as far as Pian di Venola, and then with the dedicated shuttle service (running from 9.30 am to 7.30 pm). Animals are not allowed on the shuttles.
For further information, please contact the event organisers at the dedicated email address.
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Liberation Day in Monte Sole
Parco Storico di Montesole, Via San Martino 25
40043 Marzabotto
Telephone: +39 051 931026
Email: 25aprilemontesole@gmail.com
Site/minisite/other: https://appenninobolognese.cittametropolitana.bo.it/it/eventi/celebrazioni-ricorrenze/25-aprile-a-monte-sole-
Timetables
Programme:
Sunday 21 April
- Vado, Via IV Novembre from 3 p.m. Arbitri Elegantiae and Kimono concerts
Wednesday 24 April
- Grizzana Morandi, 9 p.m. Liberation torchlight procession
Thursday 25 April
- Monzuno, 8:30 a.m. wreath laying with Banda Bignardi
- Casalecchio di Reno, 9:00 a.m. departure of bicycle route to reach Monte Sole by the Ruota libera tutti project. Meeting point at Parco Talon, opposite the Church of San Martino. For info and registration write to the Instagram page @ruotaliberatutti or on the website
- Vado, 9:00 a.m. commemoration with Banda Bignardi
- Marzabotto, 9:30 a.m. laying of wreaths at the war memorial
- San Martino di Monte Sole:
9:30 a.m. concert by the choirs Le chemins de femmes and Le core
10:00 a.m. religious service by the "Piccola Famiglia dell'Annunziata". Followed by speeches by: Valter Cardi (President of the Comitato Onoranze Caduti di Marzabotto), Valentina Cuppi (Mayor of Marzabotto), Maurizio Landini (General Secretary CGIL). Performance by Andrea Pennacchi - 'My father - notes on the civil war'. Greetings from Anpi Marzabotto - Section Amedeo Nerozzi
12 noon performance "Why?" by the girls and boys of the Marzabotto secondary school
- Prato del Poggiolo:
from 1 p.m. Marakatimba, show: "Storie di Antifascismo senza retorica" by Max Collini and Jucca Reverberi. Concerts by: Wunder Tandem and Extraliscio. After live: dj set Grissino. After party: dj set Robemiste - Ghetto zdaure. On stage, intervention by the workers of "La Perla" and the Little Family of the Annunciation "for the cease-fire in Gaza".
3 p.m. "A root of hope for a blossoming of Peace": Planting of fruit trees in memory of the children of Monte Sole, organised by SPI CGIL
- Yurta del Poggiolo, "Irma Bandiera": All day photo exhibition "Sguardi Resistenti" (Resistant Glances)
- School of Peace of Monte Sole:
12:30 p.m. departure Partisan Path with songs and music by the Farthan Choir and Roncati Band
2:00 p.m. departure to visit the memorial sites
3:00 p.m. Show "The century is moving" by Gabriele del Grande. Journey through images and words in the history and future of migration in Europe. Produced by Zalab in collaboration with Cinema Zero
- Caprara: 2 p.m. Popular dances with La Galoppa and Strawberries and Storm
- Casaglia:
3:45 p.m. speech by Stefano Bonaccini, President of the Emilia Romagna Region
4 p.m. show: "Il Duce Delinquente" with Aldo Cazzullo and Moni Ovadia
Friday 26 April 2024
- Lama di Reno - Cellulosa: from 6.30 p.m. Gang concert. Followed by the docu-film screening "I miei sette padri" (My seven fathers) meeting with Adelmo Cervi and Liliana Davì. Moderator: Andrea Marchi, Regional Committee for the Honours to the Fallen of Marzabotto and Manuel Mesoraca, ANPI Marzabotto.
Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 April 2024
- Monte Sole: Resistance Day, ANPI Marzabotto, section A. Nerozzi
