Gun salutes, the playing of national anthems, a military parade and lots of floral wreaths were offered yesterday at the old Olkusz cemetery in southern Poland, in the memory of Italian Colonel Francesco Nullo, who went to Poland 150 years ago to lend his support to the country’s struggle for freedom and was killed on 5 May 1863 in a battle with the Russian Tsar’s army near Krzykawka. Read more, in Italian.