Massa Lombarda (RA) - Emilia Romagna
- Tuttitaly
- Mar 16, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Jun 11
Expressed a "widespread resistance" to fascism, women and men chose not to give up the desire to be free and whose courage is testified by the history of their country... #tuttitaly
The story goes that in Massa Lombarda, women and men, during the Nazi-Fascist government, chose not to give up the desire to be free. This constituted a severe problem for the government from the point of view of military, political, and social control. The city was thus the scene of one of the bloodiest episodes perpetrated by the Nazi fascists on the civilian population - the massacre of the Baffè and Foletti families, which took place on 17 October 1944.
The city does not only tell the horrors of Nazi Fascism.
Visiting Massa Lombarda also means getting to know the "country of fruit." In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the country offered itself to the world as the site of the first experiments on fruit tree plants - especially peach trees - and on the cultivation of sugar beets.
Some entrepreneurs established companies that enjoyed
solid development and impeded the first fruit exports to Europe. Fruit and vegetable warehouses and a sugar factory were built, and trade with foreign countries was consolidated.
In a farmhouse on the city's outskirts, the Adolfo Bonvicini Fruit Growing Museum hosts a section on farmers' work and daily life and an area that illustrates the evolution of fruit cultivation techniques.
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