Mussolini's bunker under Villa Torlonia to be opened

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Worldwarstoday
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Mussolini's bunker under Villa Torlonia to be opened

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Post by Worldwarstoday » 13 Jul 2012, 13:20

Benito Mussolini's wartime bunker under Villa Torlonia in Rome is to be opened to the public:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18808021

Hope this video can be seen by viewers outside the UK. Sometimes the BBC have geographical restrictions on their video and audio content (for copyright reasons) which can be quite annoying. If you can't watch the video let me know and I'll upload it to my website.

Villa Torlonia was never bombed although it was considered by Anthony Eden a few weeks before Mussolini's downfall in July 1943:

http://www.worldwarstoday.co.uk/2011/10 ... sters.html

If anyone has any modern day photographs of the interior I'd love to see them. :D
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Dili
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Re: Mussolini's bunker under Villa Torlonia to be opened

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Post by Dili » 21 Jul 2014, 22:50

http://www.bunkerdiroma.it/index.html photos, virtual visit documents and articles, Google map of bunkers/refugee in Rome, etc.
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