"The sport that unites young and old, boys and girls, ... but also Italians and Slovenians"

The Friuli Venezia Giulia Regional Committee of the Italian Fencing Federation (F.I.S.) together with the national fencing federation of Slovenia (SABLJAŠKA ZVEZA SLOVENIJE) intends to organise an Olympic fencing sporting event aimed at the Italian federation's ‘prime lame’ and ‘esordienti’ categories and the Slovenian federation's ‘U8 and “U10” categories, i.e. primary school children from Friuli Venezia Giulia and Slovenia, which will include motor routes, collaborative group games and fencing matches.

The motor games will occupy the central spaces of the Piazza Transalpina on both Italian and Slovenian territory.

The 4 (four) fencing tracks/footpaths that the committee intends to install for the entire duration of the event will have their centre line coinciding with the border between the two states (Italy and Slovenia) so that the athletes can continuously ‘trespass’ in their sporting performance.

The event would take place on Saturday, 17 May 2025 (from 10:00 a.m. to about 1:00 p.m., time inclusive of the assembly and disassembly of the equipment) at the Piazza Transalpina for the city of Gorizia and TRG Evrope for the city of Nova Gorica.

The sports event is entirely financed by the Region and is part of a regional project of three sports events featuring Gorizia-Nova Gorica as the European Capital of Culture.

For participants and the public the event will be free of charge.

Participation is open to both Federations, therefore to all amateur sports associations in Friuli Venezia Giulia and Slovenia for all three weapons: plastic and metal foil, plastic and metal sword, and metal sabre.

The local contact person is the Olympic Fencing Amateur Sports Association ASD Fratelli D'Armi based in Gorizia (president Carolina Borruso).

email: info@fratellidarmi.com

PEC: schermago@pec.fratellidarmi.com

cell. + 39 3294771817.