Word: castel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grand Councilors who voted to oust the Duce last July 24 were tried for their lives. But at the trial in Verona's grim, massive Castel Vecchio, built in 1335 near Diocletian's amphitheater, only six defendants were present. The others were in hiding. The judges were all Italians; no Germans took part. Many believe that the judges had been told to go as far as they liked, since the Duce would suspend the sentences in time...
Monument by Monument. But dust had not freshly settled over the Cassino abbey before the Allies faced another monument. Allied GHQ in Algiers announced that Castel Gandolfo, the Pope's summer palace, approximately twelve miles north of the Anzio beachhead, "contained a heavy saturation of Nazis." Five days later, Rome announced that Castel Gandolfo had again been bombed...
...Roman Catholic sources. In Washington, the Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani,* Apostolic Delegate to the U.S. since 1933, stated, on instructions of Cardinal Maglione, that "no German soldier has been admitted within the borders of the neutral pontifical villa." The National Catholic Welfare Conference then issued a statement that Castel Gandolfo was filled with 15,000 Italian refugees, "several hundred" of whom had been killed in recent Allied bombings...
Gutted but not destroyed was the Castel Nuovo (probably the most imposing monument in Naples...
Intact were the Cascades at Caserta, a famed waterway lined with baroque sculpture; the Castel del Monte, near Bari (depository for all the art treasures of the Bari area); the 12th-Century cathedral at Bari...