The Municipalities of the Aosta Valley involved in a special project for the centenary of the transfer of the Unknown Soldier to the Altare della Patria
The granting of honorary citizenship to the Unknown Soldier is one of the initiatives involving the Municipalities of the Aosta Valley on the occasion of the centenary of the transfer to the Altare della Patria, in Rome, of the unknown soldier who died in the First World War and became a symbol of all people who died during the bloody conflict. The anniversary will fall on November 4th. In the second half of the year, Celva plans to elaborate a “standard resolution” that all the municipal councils of the Aosta Valley will be able to use to confer honorary citizenship on the Unknown Soldier.
The Consortium of local authorities of the Aosta Valley will also be responsible for distributing a commemorative plaque to the 74 Municipalities to be affixed to the Monuments to the Fallen.
«The story of the Unknown Soldier – underlines Celva – tells the story of the fallen of every single country, village and community who, in the course of the great war efforts, contributed with sacrifice to the construction of the sense of national unity. To make this memory current, one possible way is to tell its stories and thus ensure the memory of the facts, also using tools and languages closer to digital natives ».
One of these tools is a documentary on the memory of the Unknown Soldier. Celva asked the Aosta mayors to contribute to the production with testimonies, documents and other material that can help tell the story of a Valle d’Aosta soldier who went to war, whose identity will remain unknown and who, thanks to an exchange of letters, will bring back the public in the most important historical places, sublimating the individual sacrifice sustained to honor the homeland.
Finally, for the “Unknown Soldier, citizen of Italy” project, the Doues Alpine Group will promote visits to the Alpine Museum. In the exhibition there are the Alpine hats since the foundation of the Corps, the uniforms used in the period of the Great War or the Second World War, documents, vintage photographs and many objects that accompanied our soldiers in their commitment.
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