Ittiri: Festa del 25 Aprile 2024

Italy celebrates Liberation Day from Nazi-Fascism on April 25th. The German and Fascist occupation of Italy did not end in a single day, but April 25th is considered a symbolic date because in 1945 it coincided with the beginning of the retreat of Nazi German soldiers and Fascist soldiers of the Republic of Salò from the cities of Turin and Milan, after the population had rebelled and the partisans had organized a coordinated plan to regain control of the cities. The decision to choose April 25th as "Liberation Day" (or "anniversary of the Liberation of Italy") was made on April 22, 1946, when the provisional Italian government—the first led by Alcide De Gasperi and the last of the Kingdom of Italy—established with a decree that April 25th should be a "national holiday."