Through Sunday, May 14, Udine, in Friuli Venezia Giulia, will host the National Meeting of the Alpini, now in its 94th year. 450,000 people are expected to arrive in the city, and 90,000 Alpine soldiers will participate in the final parade. After what happened in past years, and in particular in Rimini in 2022, when there were hundreds of reports of harassment and abuse, the association that organizes the rallies has issued a manifesto and a behavior manual. However, feminist movements are on the warpath. The Alpini are the mountain troops of the Italian army. They were formed in October 1872 to protect, at least initially, Italy's northern mountain borders. The National Alpine Association, which organizes the annual assembly (ANA), was born at the end of World War I (on July 8, 1919) by a group of veterans who met at the Spatenbräu Brewery on Via Foscolo in Milan. The first national assembly was organized in September 1920 on Mount Ortigara, in the province of Vicenza, where a battle had taken place in 1917 in which thousands of soldiers had died. Each national muster - a large gathering of soldiers, former soldiers, sympathizers and volunteers - is attended by tens of thousands of men especially of advanced age, and this is also why they are often characterized by a strong macho and sexist spirit.