[Podcast] Fiume to listen to – Story of a border city
Fiume. A contested city, at the heart of 20th-century European history.
Through a simple and engaging audio narrative, we retrace the key moments: the Empire, the war, the expedition, the exodus.
A story to listen to in order to understand, remember, and never forget.
Curated by Massimiliano Grohovaz.
🎙️ Episode 1 – The medieval origins of Fiume
From the year 1000 to Habsburg rule: a city between empires, bishops, and legends.
🎙️ Episode 2 – Fiume between empires and autonomy (1500–1800)
Wars, statutes, epidemics, and economic growth: two centuries of transformation for a contested city.
🎙️ Episode 3 – Fiume between revolutions, occupations, and development (1800–1870)
From the Napoleonic Empire to the Dual Monarchy: between political instability and civic growth, Fiume seeks its place in Europe.
🎙️ Episode 4 – Fiume between progress and tensions (1869–1914)
An era of extraordinary growth in ports, industry, and culture. But in the background, rising nationalism begins to emerge, leading toward conflict.
🎙️ Episode 5 – Fiume in the Great War (1914–1919)
Between military ports, annexation proclamations, and diplomatic negotiations, Fiume becomes a crucial node in the new European order.
🎙️ Episode 6 – The Fiume Endeavor and the birth of the Free State (1919–1920)
Between myth, occupation, and constitution: D’Annunzio leads a unique revolution in Italian and Fiuman history.
Episode 7 – From the Free State to annexation: Fiume between crisis and regime (1920–1939)
Smothered autonomy, annexation to Italy, racial laws, and cultural resistance: Fiume enters the orbit of fascism.
🎙️ Episode 8 – War, chaos, and violence: Fiume 1940–1943
From Italy’s entry into the conflict to the German occupation: a territory contested between partisans, repression, and tragedy.
🎙️ Episode 9 – Fiume under bombs and the shadow of the Foibe (1943–1945)
Between Nazi occupation, deportations, the Resistance, and Yugoslav liberation: the darkest years in the city’s history.
🎙️ Episode 10 – Political repression in Fiume (1944–1947)
Arrests, denunciations, show trials, and religious persecution: the dark face of the postwar period under the Yugoslav regime.
🎙️ Episode 11 – The exodus and the erasure of Italian identity
After the Second World War, Fiume loses its Italian identity. A mass exodus, the rewriting of memory, and the difficult reintegration of the exiles into a new Italy.
🎙️ Episode 12 – Fiume, a thousand years of history (1000–1950)
In this final episode, we revisit the key historical events that shaped Fiume: from its medieval origins to the postwar exodus of Italians. A journey filled with identity, conflict, and transformation.