Quaderni, Vol. XXXVI No. 1, 2025.
Original scientific paper
CORRESPONDENTS OF THE MILAN-BASED “CORRIERE DELLA SERA” IN THE EASTERN ADRIATIC (1933-1934). Part One - SEASIDE TOURISM IN THE JULIAN SEA: SALVATORE APONTE AND THE TRIP TO THE “BEACHES OF OUR EAST”: GRADO, OPATIJA/ABBAZIA, AND THE BRIJUNI ISLANDS
Ferruccio Canali
; Dipartimento di Architettura, Università di Firenze-Italia
Abstract
Due to both authors’ and publishers’ wish to always subordinate “Travel Literature”
to specific geopolitical objectives, in 1933, the Milano-based “Corriere della Sera”
(the then largest Italian broadsheet newspaper) published a large group of articles
thematically divided into three series, dedicated to the state of the “Eastern Italian
Coast” and its main seaside resorts (Grado, Opatija/Abbazia, and the Brijuni),
written by Salvatore Aponte; there was also a survey of the “Cities of Dalmatia”
and “Dalmatian Romanity” by Giovan Battista Angioletti; and two stories on Istria
(Poreč/Parenzo and Pula/Pola) by Ugo Ojetti. Even these apparently “neutral”
reports had a clearly political, or at least administrative-managerial purpose, and
the news provided (apparently for other purposes) served to guide or prepare public
opinion for specific perspectives. This was the case with the valorisation of the
three Veneto-Julian seaside resorts, already part of the Kingdom of Italy, but had
very different tourism- (corporate) characteristics.
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Publication date:
23.10.2025.
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