Italy's supreme Court of
Cassation on Tuesday rejected a bid from the coastal resort of
Sabaudia south of Rome to reclaim the sand dunes on which
generations of VIPs have built luxury villas.
The suit, which started in 1962, failed because Italy's
former Fascist government awarded the land to other local towns
and not to Sabaudia, judicial sources said.
Among the VIPs saved by the definitive ruling are the Fendi
family, soccer icon Francesco Totti and the head of the Italian
Olympic Committee (CONI), Giovanni Malagò.
Sabaudia, built from reclaimed swampland by Benito
Mussolini's regime, has long been a favoured liberal-leaning
watering hole and has been a backdrop of films by the late
Michelangelo Antonioni and Bernardo Bertolucci.
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