Behind every photograph there is someone who took it, and then a day, a place, faces. We only tell its story here when the sources confirm it.
Beppe Giaccone and Ezio Caldart, 25 November 2007 (in Italian)
Ennio Pavei took it on the day of the Group’s annual meeting; the Col Maòr published it in 2009.
The inauguration in the rain
Open umbrellas and Alpini hats in the streets of Salce: the procession on the day the Group, founded the year before, could at last celebrate.
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Portrait of General Pietro Zaglio
The man who gives the Group its name, in uniform and with his decorations. Beneath the photograph, the original caption recalls his two wars.
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The Alpine Befana of 1991
The Befana standing on the cart decorated with fir trees, with the Group’s sign and the papier-mâché mule: a Salce tradition since 1969.
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The celebration on the Col Maòr
“The kitchens prepare the rations”, reads the original caption. Alpini at the field kitchens, the crowd behind them, on the Group’s tenth anniversary.
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The Val di Siva bridge
A train crosses the arched viaduct, seen from the park of Villa Pagani-Gaggia at Socchieva di San Fermo. The Col Maòr published it in 2009.
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Three soldiers on horseback
One photograph, two different captions. Following the sources, the story works out who the three men on the mountain path really were.
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The cover of the first Col Maòr
Green and white, mimeographed: the first issue of the newsletter the Group has been publishing for more than sixty years.
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Salce, 1946: the pasta-eating contest
Half the village around a table and the contestants with their faces in their plates. We know the place and the year, not yet the names: do you recognise anyone?
View the photograph →For galleries of all the Group’s activities, year by year, visit the Photo archive.
