Sasso Mobile

Guided tours the last Sunday of every month, from 10 am to noon, and from 3-7pm. Reservations required through the Tourist Office.

During the Second World War, Colle Ameno was used by the Germans to support their air force, as a military hospital, a prison and a prisoner sorting station. Civilian males between the ages of 17 and 55 were rounded up and separated into three categories: the youngest and strongest were sent to work camps in Germany; those not as young but still able-bodied were used to dig trenches, build forts and plant mines along the Gothic Line; the sick or crippled were shot. Testimonies indicate that the ground floor rooms of the central part of Villa Davia were used as prisons. On the walls of the building some civilians wrote their names, sometimes the date and their addresses with pieces of charcoal. Images, testimonies and artifacts are kept in the Aula della Memoria (Memorial Hall), a documentation and educational center and multimedia consultation library, tracing history from the fascist period to the present.