On 12 September, the beach at Lido Spineta once again became the setting for the 1943 Allied landings. Combining history, re-enactment, music and dance, the event brought memory back to the very places where those events actually took place. Eighty-three years after the Allied landings on the Salerno coast, history came…
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9 September, on memory of the fallen
Commonwealth War Cemetery As every year, the Mubat Association promotes the remembrance of the fallen. On 9 September at 11:00 a.m., at the Commonwealth War Cemetery in Montecorvino Pugliano, the municipalities that signed the Memorandum of Understanding in 2025 — Altavilla Silentina, Bellizzi, Battipaglia, Campagna, Eboli, Montecorvino Pugliano, Montecorvino Rovella, Pontecagnano Faiano, Olevano sul Tusciano…
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Avalanche Day 2026, with the patronage of Mic e Regione Campania
The memory of Operation Avalanche returns to centre stage in Battipaglia with the tenth edition of Avalanche Day, the Public History project promoted by the MUBAT Association to tell the story of the Allied landings of 9 September 1943 through research, public engagement, historical re-enactment and new digital tools. The initiative aims to involve not only enthusiasts and scholars, but also young…
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Battipaglia for Urban Spaces at Leverkusen
From 10 to 14 September 2026, the Opladener Geschichtsverein and the Jülicher Geschichtsverein will welcome partners from ten European cities for the international workshop “StadtRäume / UrbanSpaces – Europa vor Ort”. Among them, Mubat and Battipaglia will contribute their perspective on the history of Campania and share their experience in the use of technology for cultural heritage. The workshop will focus…
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The international research: Voices of Liberation conference in Thessaloniki
The EU CERV Avalanche Project will host an international conference in Thessaloniki from 21 to 23 April 2026, bringing together scholars and researchers to engage in dialogue on European memory, history, and citizenship. Call for Papers Voices of Liberation Historical, Literary and Linguistic approaches to Testimonies in the Context of…
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The TOCC project (www.operationavalanche.org) was presented at the ‘Digital Emergence’ workshop
Carlo Bruno’s presentation, President of Mubat, at the “Digital Emergence” workshop introduced the digital museum of Operation Avalanche, developed as part of the TOCC-PNRR projects a project that represents an important starting point</a> for new initiatives aimed at disseminating the history of Operation Avalanche.An important investment of nearly 90,000 euros,…
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The Patronage of the Minister of Culture and the Campania Region for Avalanche Day.
The Avalanche Day 2025 event, part of the European CERV Avalanche project, was once again supported this year by the Campania Region and the Italian Ministry of Culture, receiving official patronage respectively under the 2025 Cultural Promotion Plan and the National Fund for Historical Reenactments. https://spettacolo.cultura.gov.it/bando-fondo-nazionale-per-la-rievocazione-storica-2025-assegnazione-dei-contributi
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Mubat presents Avalanche e Seas of Peace at international Erasmus+ TCA in Cagliari
Three days in Cagliari were dedicated to exploring opportunities for European collaboration within the TCA ‘Civic Engagement and EU values at the heart of new Erasmus+ projects’, which brought together numerous education professionals from across Europe. The event, organized by INDIRE, the Italian National Agency for the Erasmus+ programme, was also…
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The White Roses Ceremony on the Landing Beach in the Roger Sector (Battipaglia), the historical reenactment, and the ‘Radio Onda – History Telling’ concert.
On 13 September, at Lido Spineta in Battipaglia, a reenactment of Operation Avalanche — the Salerno Landing of 9 September 1943 — was held with the participation of associations specialized in historical reenactment, such as “Noi Soldati al Fronte 43–45” and the “Living History Group”. Several vintage military vehicles were…
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Tribute at Salerno Commonwealth Cemetery.
On 9 September at 12:00, at the Commonwealth War Cemetery in Montecorvino Pugliano, the municipalities of Altavilla Silentina, Bellizzi, Battipaglia, Campagna, Eboli, Montecorvino Pugliano, Montecorvino Rovella, Pontecagnano Faiano, Olevano sul Tusciano, and Salerno gathered to pay tribute to the fallen. The ceremony serves as a reminder that war never resolves…
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The Avalanche Day, supported by the Campania Region as part of the cultural promotion plan for the year 2025.
The Campania Region has decided to approve the Avalanche Day project proposal again for 2025. The initiative aims to promote historical dissemination regarding the Allied landing in Salerno in 1943. https://www.regione.campania.it/regione/it/news/regione-informa/piano-di-promozione-culturale-per-l-anno-2025?page=1 The proposal prepared by Mubat identifies its strengths in the integration of resources from different sources, in order to…
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Eight municipalities sign a memorandum of understanding to promote the memory of Operation Avalanche: Altavilla Silentina, Battipaglia, Bellizzi, Eboli, Montecorvino Pugliano, Montecorvino Rovella, Olevano sul Tusciano, and Salerno.
On 8 January, a memorandum of understanding was signed between the Municipal Administrations of Battipaglia, Eboli, Bellizzi, Olevano Sul Tusciano, Montecorvino Pugliano, Montecorvino Rovella, Salerno, and Altavilla Silentina. The protocol supports the project ‘The Sites of Operation Avalanche’, which has been submitted for the European Heritage Label and, more broadly,…
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The Campania Region grants patronage to Avalanche Day also for 2024
With Executive Decree No. 832 of last December 2nd, the Campania Region approved the sponsorship of the “Avalanche Day” celebration cycle also for 2024. The allocation was made as part of the 2024 annual plan for the promotion of cultural initiatives. This represents an important new milestone achieved by the…
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Il Marchio Europeo del Patrimonio, un nuovo progetto promosso da Mubat
Mubat has launched a new initiative: among the 11 candidates for the European Heritage Label there is the “Sites of Operation Avalanche.” Battipaglia, Bellizzi, Eboli, Montecorvino Pugliano, Montecorvino Rovella, Olevano sul Tusciano, and Salerno—seven municipalities that have joined forces to prepare a robust dossier of approximately 200 pages—are presenting a…
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