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It could seem obvious. If you have always lived in a place and your family roots are there, you should know your town. But this is barely never an assumption. Most of the times you know the places you always go to: your borough, your office, the bar you eat your breakfast, the shops you see along the road from your…

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I have been living here since 2012, and it always brought me a kind of uncomfortable feeling when I had to talk about my town, a very nice one, indeed but with a very bad name coming from the fact that it was the birth town of Mr Mussolini, the man who caused many sufferance to the Italian people. Predappio:…

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Until some years ago, no one really was interested in this little town, you couldn’t even find it on the map of Emilia Romagna. It was just a name on the destination plaques you could find along the street taking you from Forlì to Bertinoro, the balcony of Romagna, a place to spend warm summer evenings with friends,…

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Is architecture a communication tool for the Regimes during the ages? Do you consider Colosseum in Rome just a wonderful monument or a symbol that reflects the philosophy, the ideas and the concept of State of those who built it? For sure you may not consider it a center of power and a place to neglect just because…

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A case, maybe just a true need to have an airport in his own town, but Mussolini really began the aviation tradition of Forlì. The Airport, now unfortunately closed (sometimes it is hard to understand Italian things even for an Italian!), was built in 1935 and one year later was used to test the airplanes built in the…

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If you live in a town since you were a child, you grow up with some perfect images in your mind. The streets you stroll with your mother, the place you ate your first ice cream, the gardens you enjoyed the children games, your elementary school. Sounds, voices, smells change while you grow up and slowly disappear in a…