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Location:	Rocca delle Caminate	by:	Giuseppe Marzulli
Area:	Italy	Date:	11 July 2021

SOLVED RIDDLE.

Rocca delle Caminate is a medieval castle located near Predappio in the Emilia-Romagna. It functioned as the summer home of Benito Mussolini, who was born in Predappio.
But Mussolini rarely lived in Rocca delle Caminate, because it was too far from Rome. More than anything else, the Rocca was the place where he would have lived in old age, but it never happened.
Luckily there is nothing now in the castle that reminds Mussolini, as, after many years of neglect, the interiors have been completely renovated to make it a university center with meeting rooms.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocca_delle_Caminate

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Gut gemacht. Beim rätsellösen lasse ich Italien-Kennern gerne den Vortritt.

Grüße,
Dieter

2021/12/20 14:49 , Dieter Leimkötter

Hi Dieter. As you suggested, we are in Italy. The location from where the pano was taken is famous, but there is a kind of "damnatio memoriae" about it ;-)

2021/12/20 15:19 , Giuseppe Marzulli

No clue yet either. Are these snowy mountains in the distance, or just clouds? Cheers, Martin

2021/12/20 17:48 , Martin Kraus

Hi Martin. They are clouds. There are no snow-capped mountains.

2021/12/20 17:51 , Giuseppe Marzulli

This place is hard to guess because it was removed from Italian public opinion and rightly preferred to forget it.
The mountains in the background are the Apennines.

2021/12/21 11:49 , Giuseppe Marzulli

Sorry to the community, but I just do not get to comment at the moment. Small hint: The church at the end of the panorama was inaugurated on October 27, 1934 - a date who can be the key for the solution.
Cheers Werner

2021/12/21 19:39 , Werner Schelberger

I read an article about "Damnatio Memorae". It tells about sixteen Roman emperors who received this "title" after their deaths.
Has it to do with individuals like Caligula, Commodus, Elagabalus, Diocletian, Sejanus, Messalina ... ?

Or is it more in contemporary times ?

2021/12/21 21:15 , Hans-Jürgen Bayer

The most famous case of "damnatio memoriae" in more current times that I know is about Trotsky in the Soviet Union.
Nowadays it is used in a somewhat ironic way.
In this pano, however, I referred it (jokingly) not so much to a historical figure, but to the building from which the pano was taken.

I think it is explained quite well in this example
https://unintendedconsequenc.es/tag/damnatio-memoriae/

2021/12/21 22:54 , Giuseppe Marzulli

Returning to the riddle, tonight I will give the solution.
If anyone wants to try, the tips are these:
1) The photos were taken from a Rocca (fortress)
2) the mountains in the background are the Apennines
3) if you want to understand the Italian political figure we are talking about, Werner's suggestion is very useful for understanding the period in which he lived.

2021/12/22 13:53 , Giuseppe Marzulli

4) The Rocca was the summer residence during this period.

2021/12/22 16:50 , Werner Schelberger