In our city, similarly – albeit in a less evident way – to other larger cities in northern Italy, it is possible to reconstruct an itinerary on the places that marked the development of society in the transition between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, after the unification of Italy, following economic and political junctions that have catapulted Verona into a cyclone of strong and bloody tensions. The dawn of the Great War, the Mutilated Victory and the Red Biennium, with their ideological upheavals; the rise of fascist squads, but also little-known personalities of that historical juncture, who have crossed the twenty-year Regime with completely unpredictable developments. Until the epilogues, as famous as they are tragic, of the Social Republic, with the presence in Verona of the SS commands and with the fatal story of Galeazzo Ciano and Edda Mussolini.
Abstract
The visit will touch symbolic places and little-known junctions of local twentieth-century history, and will above all include the entrance to the Palazzo dei Mutilati, a magnificent example of the fascist style, still perfectly intact, not only in its external forms and furnishings, but also in its function, which since 1933 has always been the seat of the ANMIG (National Association of War Invalids and Mutilated Persons) without interruption.
Upon request, it is also possible to add a visit to the Futurist Room, inside a private property, frescoed by local painters in the 1940s, and/or the access to a real unerground German bunker.
Duration of the tour: starting from 2 hours
Rate: starting from 75€ per hour
CONTACT THE GUIDE: daniele.bressan@hotmail.it
