Memorial Bombing Viterbo

The plaque reads:

"...During the bombings of World War II entire families who fled from other Italian cities perished here. You were welcomed as brothers, but the bombs killed you.

Placed by the city of Viterbo, in memoriam...."

Like Montecassino, Viterbo was almost erased from the earth by heavy allied aerial bombing raids.
During World War II Viterbo was occupied by the Wehrmacht after the Armistice of Cassibile and heavily bombed by the Allies, enduring over twenty raids between July 1943 and June 1944; this left a third of the city destroyed or badly damaged, and caused heavy damage to cultural heritage and 1,017 civilian deaths.
Italians from other cities (among others from Montecassino) sought refuge here in the former gymnasium, only to be killed during the bombings.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Vincent Cammisa