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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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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Reenactment and Radio Onda at night on September 14th for the eighty-first anniversary of the landing
The annual festival dedicated to the Allied Landing of September 9, 1943, enters in the executive phase. The main innovation of this year is the realization, in a single evening, of the annual concert “Radio Onda” and the re-enactment of the landing with vintage military vehicles and associations of specialists…
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Avalanche in Europe, between history and technologies
The Mu.Bat. association (Museum of Battipaglia) promotes a large project that aims to rediscover and enhance one of the crucial moments of the Second World War, often forgotten by collective memory, and does so through three interconnected projects, involving a vast network of collaborations at local, national and international level.…
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June 21, 1943, the beginning of the apocalypse in Battipaglia
il 21 giugno 1943, intorno a ora di pranzo, Battipaglia e Salerno vengono bombardate. On June 21, 1943, around lunchtime, Battipaglia and Salerno are bombed. It is the beginning of an ordeal that will only end in September with the retreat of the Germans. Inside the town hall is kept…
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CERV European Remembrance “Avalanche” project kicks off, supporting the Holocaust exhibition of Italian Jews in Rhodes
It was a great emotion on Friday evening to attend the inauguration of the exhibition/installation “Jews of Rhodes” in Milan, at the Shoah Memorial at Binario 21. The exhibition was created by the Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center (CDEC) thanks to a legacy by Mrs. Ester Menascé Fintz and was co-financed…
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The Erasmus+ Seas of Peace project ends in Crete
The last act of a two-year project between the schools of Crete School of Palekastro and the Alfonso Gatto Institute of Battipaglia was the mobility of the Italian school in Greece, a great opportunity to strengthen the affectionate relations between these two schools. Over the past two years these schools…
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The British Ambassador in Battipaglia for the 80th Anniversary of Operation Avalanche
Our effort is to disseminate and promote, especially on an international level, the importance of the sacrifices made by the Province of Salerno during World War II, particularly during the harrowing days of Operation Avalanche. The desired increase in international attention has materialized this year. Past correspondence with the embassies…
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80th Anniversary of the Operation Avalanche, VII edition of “Avalanche Day”
This year will be the 80th anniversary of the Allied landing in the Gulf of Salerno and, as it’s usual, the recurrences every 10 years take on greater importance. For this reason we have already active since last september in order to creating an big event for this anniversary. The…
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Battipaglia is in the official list of candidates for the European Heritage Label
On yesterday, 28th December, the Ministry of Culture has published a post on its website with the official list of the thirteen candidates to National selection for European Heritage Label 2023. The list includes the Municipality of Battipaglia with a prepared by Mubat such as a dedicated website Lands of…
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