After 30 years I'm back in the abandoned rope factory of Viserba. It was used at the time of WWII, as a concentration camp, first by the Nazifascists and then by the Allies, after the breaking of the Gothic Line. The last time I been there when i was a child and now I'm amazed to see how people of my city, over the years, has pilfered a few bricks, but did not touch the industrial plants nor the prisoners's furnishings. As if this wretched place, despite the oblivion of all the time spent, still harbors their reverence and fear.

Photographer:
fricicchia
Uploaded:
2015-05-15
Tags:
abandoned wwii
Film:
Ilford FP4
City:
Rimini
Country/region:
Italy
Albums:
Corderia

2 Comments

  1. lomodesbro
    lomodesbro ·

    This is a very graphic album with a high emotional impact. I hope that you will participate in the Abandoned Places Rumble. My step-father served with NZ troops in the Italian campaign.
    in WW2

  2. fricicchia
    fricicchia ·

    Ciao, thank you.
    The Gothic Line on the Adriatic coast was just smashed especially by colonial troops of the British Empire: New Zealanders, Australian, South African, Indian, etc. gurkas.
    Supported by armies in exile as the Polish and greek and Italian partisan.
    Thank goodness your step-father came home, unlike them:
    www.lomography.co.kr/homes/fricicchia/albums/2015824-soldie….
    It 'was the bloodiest battle of the entire war in Italy, for the soldiers but also civilians.
    How can I participate in the Abandoned Places Rumble, I would love to do it. :-)

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