The paper presents a case study of visits to World War I battlefield sites (monuments, sacred zones, cemeteries) on the Soča/Isonzo front. The focus is on acknowledging the motivations related to the ...construction of monuments and the role and interest of the Italian authorities when influencing and encouraging these visits. The paper will also attempt to determine the importance of this practice in the case of memorial sites at the Soča/Isonzo front. Additional issues addressed in the paper include how common visits to these sites were in the interwar period, who the primary visitors were and if and how this activity resonated in the tourism sector, and how tourism reflected the Italian national narrative in the contested border region.
The paper studies the development of seaside tourism, presenting the phases of its development: from health resorts, swimming in the cold sea, and slowly moving towards the warmer southern seaside ...destinations. It touches upon the initiators and promotors of medical treatments with sea air and bathing. It also focuses on customs and fashion on the beach. In order to understand the evolution of the bathing suits, the processes and circumstances, which influenced the development of customs, regulations on the beach and fashion, will be presented. How did the “evolution” of the bathing or swimsuit take place during the 19th and 20th century? It is important to understand when and why the previously “dangerous” and unfriendly sea has acquired healing characteristics and what were the factors and dynamics that encouraged the fashion of bathing in seawater. The aim is to present how the rituals on the beach evolved and how the life on the beach changed throughout time and became one of the most spread and popular leisure activity in summer.
The paper explores tourism development in the Italian region of Venezia Giulia. The territory under discussion represents an interesting but unexplored field of study in historiography, focusing on ...tourism development during the interwar period. My aim is to study the interrelation between the political regime and the national discourse within the tourism development sector in its various forms. The intent is to study how tourist destinations (“old” and “new”) managed to adjust to the changed political circumstances within a developing totalitarian system – fascism. Different typologies of tourist destinations will be taken into consideration.
The present article presents the reader the Path of Factories or tells the reader/visitor the story left behind the former economic activity of the fish processing industry, operating from the last ...quarter of the 19th century to the present day. The path tells the story, which is still preserved today among Isolans, lives on and represents the memory about six factory plants in the city of Izola/Isola, which are placed all along the the way from the west to the eastern bay of the town. The two extremes of the route coincide with the primary economic activity of the city of Izola/Isola, processing small „blue“ fish.
Na eni strani sta slovenska in italijanska naracija, vsaka trdno na svojih stališčih, na drugi strani pa tretja, kozmopolitska interpretacija tržaške preteklosti, ki se načeloma želi distancirati od ...nacionalnega determinizma. V ospredju príspevkov avtoric namreč ni obravnava posamezne manjšine same po sebi in za sebe, s podajanjem enostranskih in nereflektiranih interpretacij, temveč problematizirajo odnose med večino in manjšino, med dominantnimi diskurzi in kolektivnimi spomini ter manjšinskimi in marginalnimi, ki so pogosto nemi in neslišni. Knjiga se po eni strani loteva študije ?tradicionalnih? in ?uradnih? manjšin, a vselej z vidika lastnega dominantnega nacionalnega diskurza, po drugi pa ji uspe dobro kontekstualizirati prehod določene skupnosti iz dominantne v marginalno, iz družbe v ospredju v družbo v ozadju, obravnavati ?nove? manjšine in spremenjene družbene okoliščine, ki so nastale kot posledica političnih sprememb in sprememb sistema.
The article, on the example of Vilenica and Škocjan caves, presents the conducted research activities of alpine societies (cave sections) in caves (especially those of Škocjan) as well as their ...effort for the tourist promotion. Both caves passed under the administration of cave sections in the 1880s, Vilenica under the Italian and Škocjan under the littoral section of the German-Austrian alpine society.
Prispevek se na primeru jame Vilenica in Škocjanskih jam osredotoča na prikaz delovanja jamskih odsekov planinskih društev na področju raziskovanja jam (zlasti Škocjanskih) ter prizadevanj za njihovo turistično promocijo. Obe jami sta v osemdesetih letih 19. stoletja prešli pod upravo jamskih odsekov, prva italijanskega, druga pa primorske sekcije nemško-avstrijskega planinskega društva.
This article is derived from the project Turizmo Ištriano (Programme las Istre), the main aim of which was to observe the intangible heritage of North Istria from an ethnological point of view, ...within which our focus was on traditional festivities. Instead of a tourist valorisation ‘from above,’ the focus of this ethnologic research was directed towards the perceptions ‘from below,’ on how people perceive the local intangible heritage. Questions were raised about the so-called ‘authenticity,’ continuity, or discontinuity of the traditions and their relation to tourism. The research has shown that a significate element of the break of tradition of šagre can be found in the massive migrations after wwii in the rural part of Istria, which is related to the consequences of the so-called ‘Istrian exodus.’ It has also been shown how vital it is for the tradition to survive is its adaptation to the needs of the present. It was shown that people do differentiate between šagra (local character, no tourist promotion), and the ‘massive’ events that are attempting to attract tourists by selling products, presentation of ‘old days’ customs, traditional dresses, etc. that represent a ‘staged authenticity.’
The article highlights some examples of contemporary culinary events in Istria. It examines which manifestations are based on historical tradition, as most of their organizers are trying to claim, ...or whether they represent the so-called "invented tradition". Nowadays culinary events present regional or local "traditional" culinary delights with the central aim of promoting that particular area. Therefore, they are strongly related to tourist activity and the presentation of heritage for tourism purposes.
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