Adriatic and other stories

Adriatic and other stories

In this podcast, we recount events from the Adriatic and beyond its borders.

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August 31, 2025 28 mins

This is the story of Smiljan, a Dalmatian who one day in the mid-1950s decided to flee his homeland. He crossed the Adriatic Sea in a tiny rowing boat equipped with a small sail and arrived in Italy, and from there he travelled to Australia. But life is a circle, and at a certain point Smiljan returns to his island, not to erase his journey, but to give it meaning. Ulysses returns to Ithaca and finds it new, because he himself has ...

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This episode recounts the sinking of the fishing boat Rodi in the Adriatic Sea in December 1970 and the subsequent uprising of the community of San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy.

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