The ground next to Benito Mussolini’s old Roman residence at Villa Torlonia has been probed to make sure there are no archaeological artifacts that would prevent construction.
The mayor said that the project would get under way once the work schedule had been drawn up.
Using a term from Dante’s Inferno, contrapasso, or ‘suffer the opposite’ in punishment for one’s sins, Gualtieri said, “The contrapasso of memory has decided that a few metres from [Mussolini’s residence] will rise the museum of the Holocaust, in memory of the greatest crime that the Fascist and Nazi regimes perpetrated.”
Gualtieri was speaking at the presentation of a new visitor route to the Fascist dictator’s underground bunker and air raid shelter at the sprawling Rome villa, which has been turned into a museum.
The subterranean visits will start on Friday.
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