Chapel in memory of the massacre of June 18, 1944

There were twelve victims of the Nazi-Fascist retaliation on 18 June 1944 following the wounding of a German soldier on patrol.

Among the victims the first nine were local farmers, two were Campanian stragglers and the last was a partisan.

In those days a German artillery detachment in retreat had settled in the nearby Villa Vinci, and on June 17 a partisan action had succeeded in capturing two Nazi soldiers and sabotaging a mine on the bridge just to the north, delaying the blasting of an ammunition depot.

The morning of the next day came the episode that triggered the heinous roundup: in the middle of the afternoon the captured, after being beaten and tortured along the way, were shot in two different locations, You’re along a ditch upstream of the road and another six along the railway escarpment.

A thirteenth miraculously managed to escape during the transfer and remained long hidden.

On June 19, the day after the massacre, there was the final demobilization of the occupying troops fleeing north.

In memory of the tragic episode, immediately after the end of the conflict a plaque was placed on the facade of the town hall and a chapel was erected along the highway equidistant between the two places of execution (where a stone and a bronze monument were later placed), while in the following decades the twinning with the Bavarian town of Markt Pfaffenhausen was born.