MEMORIAL ON MOUNTAIN ZEC _ 3.9.2025.
On Mount Zec near Fojnica, on September 3, 2025, an annual memorial was held in memory of the four Italian pilots who died, the crew of the G-222 military transport aircraft. The aircraft was transporting humanitarian aid from Split to Sarajevo as part of the official UNHCR operation "Provide Promise", the longest humanitarian air mission in the post-Cold War period. The aircraft was hit by two surface-to-air missiles […]
VISIT TO NADA DOBNIK _ 13.8.2025.
President of UGIP "Rino Zandonai" Knežiček visited members of the association who are in poor health - Nada Dobnik and Zoran Pendić. Nada Dobnik has been a resident of the Home for the Elderly in Breške since 2024. She is in poor health, but communicative and ready for short conversations. She is satisfied with the conditions of her stay in the Home for the elderly, rarely leaves her room, [...]
VISIT TO ZORAN PENDIĆ _ 13.8.2025.
Zoran Zoka Pendić is at home in Tuzla. He cannot “get on his feet” and that is his main physical limitation. He says he has no pain and that he regularly watches TV. There are no special dietary restrictions, and Zoran is cared for by his wife Aida and Aida’s mother, who helps out when needed. Red Cross home care carers come occasionally […]
PHOTO FOR MEMORY _ 12.8.2025.
One of the most enduring photographs of members of the Italian Association was taken in 2012 in front of the Association’s building located at Mitra Trifunovića Uče 135 – the house number is on the wall of the building. The picture shows great figures who marked the activities and existence of the Italian community in Tuzla – Josip Montibeller (1942 – 2023), Anton Tono Zamboni (1931 – 2021), […]
REMEMBERING THE ZAMBONI GOVERNMENT _ 11.8.2025.
In the large Tuzla Zamboni family, there are people who are invisible, but without whom the Italian community would have difficulty functioning. Some people are constantly present among us, and make their own contribution to making things better for all of us, to preserving the values that the ancestors of Italian immigrants to Tuzla brought to Kreka and Tuzla, and later to Živinice, […]
ITALIAN CULTURE DAY IN BIJELJINA _ 6.8.2025.
At the invitation of the City of Bijeljina, UGIP "Rino Zandonai" prepared an Italian gastronomic offer as part of the Days of Italian Culture in Bijeljina. A group of 15 members of the association did something that Bijeljina did not expect. According to the Mayor of Bijeljina Ljubiša Petrović, expectations were exceeded. It was an excellent way to preserve the tradition of Italian gastronomy. The members of the association prepared 25 different […]
SHOOTING OF A DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT ITALIANS IN TUZLA _ 3.8.2025.
In August 2025, the UGIP "Rino Zandonai" Tuzla began collecting materials, developing a script and filming a documentary film about the Italians of Tuzla. The aim of the film is to preserve the culture of memory and document the existence of Italians in the Tuzla region, which especially applies to older people. The film is being made in collaboration with Zoran Pavljašević, who will use the available material […]
THE FIRST LITERARY TRIBUNE HELD IN 2025 _ 2.8.2025.
On August 2, 2025, the first literary forum dedicated to the achievements that marked the film and literary history of Italy was held at the premises of the UGIP "Rino Zandonai" Tuzla. The focus of the forum was on the influence of literary works on the film industry and the filming of literary works. At the first forum, Blanka Tišma spoke about the work Čočara (Italian: La Ciociara) by Alberto Moravia and the film […]
PRINTED LITTLE COOKIE FOR THE DAY OF ITALIAN CULTURE IN BIJELJINA _ 1.8.2025.
Association of citizens of Italian origin "Rino Zandonai" Tuzla prepared and printed a small cookbook of Italian gastronomic offers. The recipes were taken from the book "30 Years of the Association of Italians in Tuzla", and the little cook was prepared for the "Day of Italian Culture" event, which will be held in Bijeljina on August 6, 2025. from 9 p.m. on the City Square. You can download the complete cookbook HERE.
ROUND TABLE HELD ˝Labour movement and NOB in Tuzla - participation of Italians˝ _ 31.7.2025.
The presence of Italians in Tuzla and the region left a significant mark, which in a special way built a model of living together in Tuzla and laid the foundations of the common struggle for workers' rights and freedom from fascism in the Second World War. The round table entitled ˝Labour movement and NOB in Tuzla - the participation of Italians˝ was held in [...]