Sunday 26 april at 11:00

Day of remembrance in tribute to the partisans shot at Ambo bridge

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Annual ceremony in tribute to the six young Italian partisans shot at the Ambo bridge by the Nazi occupiers. Then tribute to the deportees at the Saorge war memorial, followed by a glass of friendship for the partisans' families and local residents.

On October 17, 1944, Lorenzo Alberti, aged 23, Michele Bentivolgio, aged 20, Francesco Caselli, aged 20, Giovanni Giribaldi, aged 23, Domenico Moriani, aged just 19, and Carlo Pagliari, aged 20, of the Garibaldi division, were taken by surprise at Upega (a hamlet in the former Briga Marittima) by a group of German soldiers tasked with destroying the Italian resistance in the Ligurian Alps, which had been formed on October 4. They were brought before a war council in Fontan, which sentenced them to death. On October 24, they were taken to Ambo, below the old Saorge lace road. They were forced to dig their own graves, and shot. Every year, a Franco-Italian ceremony is held on April 25, the Italian national holiday celebrating the victory over Nazi fascism, in front of the commemorative plaque marking the site of their execution.

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