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Memories and Dark Tourism in Istria
Figure 6.13
Zipline over the Cave
in Pazin
the European distortion of memory, where societies move from winners’
history to victims’ history principles (Judt, 2006; Orlić, 2012p, pp. 14–15).
In the post-Yugoslav area, this can be understood as a belated response
to the long-lasting (forced) silence, repressed memories and denial of the
victims of post-war violence. However, the damnation (damnatio memo-
riae) of dissonant heritage of the Upper Adriatic is not subject to complete
amnesia, indifference or prohibition, but only to verbal social conflicts,
which (occasionally) arise in public. One such dissonant place is Pazin
cave (Pazinska jama, Foiba di Pisino), which is a protected natural area, a
place of zipline (Figure 6.13) and guided speleo adventures (tourism sig-
nificance), but among some Italian nationalists and (right-wing) patriots
also a symbolic point of painful memories.⁵²
6.4 Other Contemporary Memorial Practices and Dark Tourism
It would be wrong today to rely only on the heritage of w w i i and ne-
glect the military/warfare heritage of other periods of the 20th century.
porary Trieste institutions, i.e. the Regional Institute for Istrian, Fiuman and Dalmatian
Culture (Istituto Regionale per la Cultura Istriana, Fiumana e Dalmata), the Civic Mu-
seum of Istrian, Fiuman and Dalmatian civilisation (Trieste Musei, n.d.), Warehouse No.
18 of the Old Port of Trieste (Magazzino 18 del Porto Vecchio di Trieste), where many items
of Italian migrants are still stored today, assist in these processes.
⁵² The material evidence of the tragic events related to the conflict has not been found at
this site.
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Figure 6.13
Zipline over the Cave
in Pazin
the European distortion of memory, where societies move from winners’
history to victims’ history principles (Judt, 2006; Orlić, 2012p, pp. 14–15).
In the post-Yugoslav area, this can be understood as a belated response
to the long-lasting (forced) silence, repressed memories and denial of the
victims of post-war violence. However, the damnation (damnatio memo-
riae) of dissonant heritage of the Upper Adriatic is not subject to complete
amnesia, indifference or prohibition, but only to verbal social conflicts,
which (occasionally) arise in public. One such dissonant place is Pazin
cave (Pazinska jama, Foiba di Pisino), which is a protected natural area, a
place of zipline (Figure 6.13) and guided speleo adventures (tourism sig-
nificance), but among some Italian nationalists and (right-wing) patriots
also a symbolic point of painful memories.⁵²
6.4 Other Contemporary Memorial Practices and Dark Tourism
It would be wrong today to rely only on the heritage of w w i i and ne-
glect the military/warfare heritage of other periods of the 20th century.
porary Trieste institutions, i.e. the Regional Institute for Istrian, Fiuman and Dalmatian
Culture (Istituto Regionale per la Cultura Istriana, Fiumana e Dalmata), the Civic Mu-
seum of Istrian, Fiuman and Dalmatian civilisation (Trieste Musei, n.d.), Warehouse No.
18 of the Old Port of Trieste (Magazzino 18 del Porto Vecchio di Trieste), where many items
of Italian migrants are still stored today, assist in these processes.
⁵² The material evidence of the tragic events related to the conflict has not been found at
this site.
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