Work on Rome's new Shoah museum is set
to start, Mayor Roberto Gualtieri said Thursday.
He said the government had earmarked funds, the ground next to
Benito Mussolini's old Roman residence at Villa Torlonia had
been probed to make sure there were no archaeological artifacts,
and that the project would get under way once the work schedule
had been drawn up.
Using a term from Dante's Inferno, 'contrapasso', or 'suffer the
opposite' in punishment for one's sins, Gualtieri said: "The
contrapasso of memory has decided that a few metres from
(Mussolini's residence) will rise the museum of the Shoah, in
memory of the greatest crime that the Fascist and Nazi regimes
perpetrated".
Gualtieri was speaking at the presentation of a new visitor
route to the Fascist dictator's underground bunker and air raid
shelter at the sprawling Rome villa, which has been turned into
a museum.
The subterranean visits will start on Friday.
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