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.
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