'Constitution born where Partisans fell' - Mattarella

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 25 - President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella paid homage to the Italian Constitution on Liberation Day on Tuesday by citing the words of one of its founding fathers, anti-Fascist intellectual and politician Piero Calamandrei.
    "If you want to go on pilgrimage to the place where our Constitution was born, go to the mountains where partisans fell, to the prisons where they were imprisoned, to the camps where they were hanged," quoted Mattarella during a ceremony in Cuneo, one of Italy's most important centres of the Partisan resistance, to mark the end of the Fascist regime and liberation from Nazi occupation.
    "Wherever an Italian died, to redeem freedom and dignity: go there, O young people, with your thoughts, because there our Constitution was born," he continued, citing Calamandrei's words to students at the Humanitarian Society in Milan in 1955.
    "It is here then, in Cuneo, the land of the 34 Gold Medals for Military Valor and of the 174 recipients of Silver Medal, of the 228 Bronze Medals for the Resistance, in the land of the 12,000 partisans, of the 2,000 who fell in combat and of the 2,600 victims of Nazi-Fascist massacres that the Republic celebrates its roots today, (that it) celebrates Liberation Day," said Mattarella. (ANSA).