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During World War II, the Fascist summer colony served a dark purpose.
A quick, scenic trek down a road from Rovegno will take you to a decaying, abandoned Fascist mansion. La Colonia di Rovegno (the Colony of Rovegno) was built as a summer camp for impoverished children in 1934, though the property soon went on to serve much darker purposes. During the later years of World War II, the estate was transformed into a prison complex by an anti-fascist faction. Displaced civilians and captured soldiers were tortured and killed, their bodies either dumped in unmarked graves or left to rot among the dirt and leaves covering the forest floor. This brutal era in the property’s history earned it the nickname “the colony of horrors.”
