On 2020 Our Association has founded Occupied Italy a full-text, open access, peer-reviewed ejournal. It is dedicated to the study of the history of the Second World War in the Italian theatre and its immediate aftermath, starting from the invasion of Sicily by the Allied armies in 1943 (more info).…
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Released the eBook “Come funziona internet?” , translation of a publishing of the SE Foundation
The Avalanche project is a project dedicated to children and based on history and technology. For this reason the covid could not have stopped us. Rather! This strange 2020 was an opportunity to boost the accelerator of technology and everything goes online. Guys of the Alfonso Gatto Institute, with whom we started…
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2019 events
Il 90mo anniversario della nascita del comune di Battipaglia, il 75mo anniversario di Salerno Capitale a seguito dello sbarco rendono l’edizione di quest’anno molto significativa ma il 2019 costituisce anche una ricorrenza molto importante per la città di Battipaglia, i 50 anni dai “moti” di aprile, durante i quali persero la…
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Erasmus: the European Youth at Battipaglia ceremony
on september 16th we have celebrated the anniversary of the Allied landing in Salerno in 1943. This year the ceremony has been enriched by the presence of a delegation from the Collège Diderot of Tourlaville in Normandy. Our association is collaborating with the Gatto Institute to a projectwithin the Erasmus Program. The project aimed…
Read More10 settembre, Ninetta! uno spettacolo teatrale e musicale ispirato all’estate del 1943
La manifestazione di chiusura delle celebrazioni Avalanche 2017 sarà uno spettacolo teatrale e musicale ideato proprio per questa prima edizione del ciclo di eventi. Si tratta di una storia inedita scritta per ricordare quanto successe nell’estate del 1943 a Salerno e nella piana del Sele, una storia che racconta una…
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2017 events program
The complete events list for 2017
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9th september, German, American and English Armies newly on the battle beaches
[rev_slider alias=”rievocazione”] On the 9th of September in the same 1943 landing areas at Spineta beaches we will be set up a re-evocation of the war events with the participation of specialized groups from Italy and abroad, with clothing and equipment of that time. There will be a real representation of the 1943…
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The collaborative digital archives by xDams Open Source Platform
The project of the digital archive around the Battipaglia’s history is the starting initiative of Mu.Bat project thanks to the particular skills of our initial project partners as regesta.exe, an italian company specialized in cultural heritage asset management involved by the local touristic company Albergo Riviera Spineta . The service has hosted by “The Archives Cloud” (www.thearchivescloud.com), based on xDams…
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9th september 2017, starts the Art and History collection at the De Amicis school
On September 9, the permanent exhibition of a collection created for the occasion will be inaugurated: 24 artists have created works inspired by the Avalanche operation and have donated them to the public leaving a signal that we hope willl help to create a collection of art and of history…
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Avalanche 2017, the Art Collection
The project aimed initially collect artworks of local artists involved through a contest. The mailn goal was to create an “Avalanche 2017” collection thanks their donation by the artists, in order to build a first valuable asset of the Battipaglia Museum and set up a virtuous cycle that would further…
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The Mu.Bat Association
The Mu.Bat association was born, the main objective for which the association was born isto participate in the cultural debate on the territory and to build, together with all the people who want to collaboratea physical and virtual place, where to preserve collective memory and save it from dispersal. The…
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June 21th, the bombing victims memorial
On June 21, 1943, the allied aviation dropped on Battipaglia its first terrible load of bombs, so the long martyrdom of the city began. “Here at Battipaglia we had an Italian Guernica, a town transformed in a matter of seconds to an heap of rubbles.” Norman Lewis, Naples ’43 On…
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Newspapers highlights
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Vintage collection
Pictures from the seaside holidays [xdamsItem type=”fotoB”]IT-xDams-xDamsLabs-FT0001-000033[/xdamsItem] [xdamsItem type=”fotoB”]IT-xDams-xDamsLabs-FT0001-000029[/xdamsItem] [xdamsItem type=”fotoB”]IT-xDams-xDamsLabs-FT0001-000028[/xdamsItem] [xdamsItem type=”fotoB”]IT-xDams-xDamsLabs-FT0001-000032[/xdamsItem]
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