Radio CO.RA.

CO.RA. is the acronym for Commissione Radio. Radio CO.RA. was an illegal radio created by the English forces and used by the Florentine Resistenza between January and June 1944. The main purpose of Radio CO.RA. was to exchange crucial information about what the Nazis were doing and where they were going. Its main characteristic was that of not having a fixed headquarter, but it was constantly moving in order to prevent German radars from locating it. The idea of creating such a radio came from the Action Party Information Service, leaded by Ludovico Ragghianti and Enrico Bocci. They agreed with the 7th US Army settled in Bari and with two Italian informers enlisted in the British 8th Army. The radio transmitted a piece of information for the first time from the Bemporad publishing house located in Via de’ Pucci, and they used the sentence “L’Arno scorre a Firenze” (in English “The Arno River flows in Florence”) as a test. The last of the radio’s headquarters was in Piazza d’Azelio.

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