The April 25th is a very important date for Italy, because we celebrate the Festa della Liberazione (the Liberation Day) to commemorate the end of the nazi-fascist occupation during the second world war. It was also the victory of the Resistence and we use to remember all the people (not just soldiers, but also a lot of partisans) who died for our freedom.
The date of April 25th was chosen as the day to celebrate because that day, in the 1945, the Comitato di Liberazione ( the Liberation Commettee) proclaimed on the radio the insurgency and so the liberation acts started thanks the italian partisans and the allies.
As
you can understand, it was not simple, a lot of people of every age
lost their life to fight for our freedom, but thanks all that brave
people it was the end to 5 years of a bloody war and the end of more
than 20 years of a fascist dictatorship.
This year we are spending this day in lockdown, everyone close inside his/her home and some of us (me and my hubby included) decided to celebrate this day singing the song "Bella Ciao" at the windows.
The image you see here is a special digital drawing I created for today ^_^
"Bella ciao" is an italian song very known in the world and the most part of people think it was the song that every partisan sang during the Second World War, but maybe you don't know that song was not the most sung song at that time (it was known just on the nothern Italy), while the most popular song between partisan was "Fischia il vento". "Bella ciao" became popular just in the 1947, when a group of ex partisan sang it in Prague and since that moment it became the Resistance's song.
In the following video from youtube you can hear one of the old version of "Bella Ciao":
The text of "Bella ciao" is:
Una mattina mi son alzato
oh
bella, ciao! bella, ciao! bella, ciao, ciao, ciao!
Una
mattina mi son svegliato
e
ho trovato l’invasor.
O partigiano, portami via,
o
bella, ciao! bella, ciao! bella, ciao, ciao, ciao!
O
partigiano, portami via,
ché
mi sento di morir.
E se io muoio da
partigiano,
o
bella, ciao! bella, ciao! bella, ciao, ciao, ciao!
E
se io muoio da partigiano,
tu
mi devi seppellir.
E seppellire lassù in
montagna,
o
bella, ciao! bella, ciao! bella, ciao, ciao, ciao!
E
seppellire lassù in montagna
sotto
l’ombra di un bel fior.
E le genti che passeranno
o
bella, ciao! bella, ciao! bella, ciao, ciao, ciao!
E
le genti che passeranno
Ti
diranno «Che bel fior!»
E questo è il fiore del
partigiano,
o
bella, ciao! bella, ciao! bella, ciao, ciao, ciao!
È
questo il fiore del partigiano
morto
per la libertà!
See ya soon and stay safe!
Silvia