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Carpi Tourist Attractions: 7 Top Places to Visit

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Top Places to visit in Carpi:
Piazza dei Martiri, Museo Monumento Al Deportato, Palazzo Pio di Savoia, Pieve di Santa Maria in Castello detta la Sagra, Ex Campo di Concentramento di Fossoli, Basilica Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, Teatro Comunale

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Carpi, Italy

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Carpi is without a doubt a pearl of the Renaissance, it has a huge 16,000 square metre piazza - the largest in Emiglia Romagna and the 34th largest in Italy. Around the piazza are historic buildings. In many areas of the historic centre there are collonades which protect from the rain and the sun. I came to spend a day there and ended up staying nearly three weeks!

The town was founded in 752CE. The Pio family ruled the city from 1319 to 1525 and they gave their name to the magnificent palace on one side of the square. It includes parts from different ages, such as the merloned-tower of Passerino Bonaccolsi, the Renaissance façade and the tower of Galasso Pio, and the 17th century watch tower. It includes a chapel frescoed by Bernardino Loschi and Vincenzo Catena.

Unfortunately the town and surrounding area suffered in the earthquake and aftershocks of May and June 2012 with the result that the cathedral is still covered by scaffolding and many buildings are off bounds to visitors. The cathedral was originally designed by Baldassarre Peruzzi who was in contact with Leonardo da Vinci. Construction begun in 1514, baroque façade added in 1701 and cupola completed 1774. Peruzzi also designed the façade of the Church of Santa Maria in Castello.

There is a synagogue off the main square with views looking down on it. There was a ghetto in Carpi in one of the streets leading off from the piazza, the synagogue was opened in the nineteenth century but closed due to declining congregation numbers in 1922. There is still a Jewish cemetery on the outskirts of the town.

North of Carpi, we can find the former camp at Fossoli. This was initially a POW camp, being set up in May 1942. After the armistice of 8 September 1943, it became a holding camp for Jews destined for Auschwitz and other places. The camp can only be visited by seeking permission. There is a deportation museum in the Pio Palace which is somewhat sparse and there are blocks in the courtyard of the palace mentioning places where people were deported to and other areas of WW2 suffering, unfortunately completed rather badly with mistakes in both German and Polish.

Motorhome parking is available off via Peruzzi which has no facilities but is very convenient. Alternatively one can use the dedicated free site at Pizzale della Piscina which has grey and black water dump as well as fresh water (see campsites section).

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Earthquake damage north of Carpi, Italy

There were two major earthquakes in Emiglia Romagna on 20 May 2012 and 29 May 2012 which caused 27 deaths and widespread damage. You can see in my film from Carpi, that the magnificent cathedral there was still covered in scaffolding four years later and off bounds to the public. In this film I visit the location of a former restaurant which collapsed. The restaurant was located on the road leading from Carpi towards Fosoli, another place you can see in a film on this site.

The earthquake in the early hours of 20 May 2012 had a magnitude of 6.1 and the epicentre was around Finale Emilia, Bondeno and Sermide. Two aftershocks of magnitude 5.2 occurred, one approximately an hour after the main even] and another approximately eleven hours after the main event. Seven people were killed. A friend described it to me as being like the sound of a train passing underground.

The earthquake of 29 May 2012 was around 10km below the ground and had a magnitude of 5.8 with the epicentre in Medolla. It took 20 lives.

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Dachau, il campo di concentramento

Giorno della memoria, immagini da Dachau

NOCI (Bari) - Nel 2000 è stato istituito in Italia il Giorno della Memoria con la legge n.211 del 20 luglio 2000. « La Repubblica italiana - si legge agli articoli 1 e 2 di tale legge - riconosce il giorno 27 gennaio, data dell'abbattimento dei cancelli di Auschwitz, Giorno della Memoria, al fine di ricordare la Shoah (sterminio del popolo ebraico), le leggi razziali, la persecuzione italiana dei cittadini ebrei, gli italiani che hanno subìto la deportazione, la prigionia, la morte, nonché coloro che, anche in campi e schieramenti diversi, si sono opposti al progetto di sterminio, ed a rischio della propria vita hanno salvato altre vite e protetto i perseguitati».

«In occasione del Giorno della Memoria di cui all'articolo 1, sono organizzati cerimonie, iniziative, incontri e momenti comuni di narrazione dei fatti e di riflessione, in modo particolare nelle scuole di ogni ordine e grado, su quanto è accaduto al popolo ebraico e ai deportati militari e politici italiani nei campi nazisti in modo da conservare nel futuro dell'Italia la memoria di un tragico ed oscuro periodo della storia nel nostro Paese e in Europa, e affinché simili eventi non possano mai più accadere».

NOCI24.it vi propone una galleria fotografia del campo di Dachau, nei pressi di Monaco. Uno fra i tanti campi di concentramento e di sterminio della follia nazista che accolse anche tanti italiani.