continue to publish the contribution on Franco Di Fede Torre Faro and Cape Pelorus. This article has been divided and will be completed over the next few days.
This was a peaceful community village of Torre Faro " Nivi and water ventures" in the daily toil and labor of heroes, humble People who have throughout history as " gintuzza" anonymous "unimportant and consideration ", but it's a reality to glorify especially in this time of new arcane and patriotic unrest, not so clearly defined, which would have had to rely with confidence and abandon. At that time lived in typical low houses, small and blunt, sometimes touching the waters of the sea.
I met in 1961, during the celebrations First Centenary for the Unification of Italy , Flavia Donato, an unforgettable figure of a woman with that farota its 106 years was the oldest person in the country, with amazing grace with youthful exuberance and charm still remember how the asserted General himself down from his white horse (it was the historic white mare Marsala) took her in his arms affectionately in a sweet fatherly gesture. She had just five years and had remained indelible in the memory the feelings of anxiety and fear that had involved a bit 'all the strange and unexpected sight of that army, which had given hospitality in the country. Grandma Flavia leave us a year later at the venerable age of 107 years .
Native in later told that the people appalled, surprised and almost incredulous at first was believed to be in front of a predatory incursion on the equally strange uniform, in a variety of styles, these militia on their backs. In fact, this unpleasant impression at first sight with Garibaldi's troops makes us understand and shows how plausible the historical memory that our people told us. We need to know the historical fact that in that climate of enrolled first-Garibaldi Mille, mainly in Lombardy, and all those others who then gradually joined in large numbers in the wake of that company, were a composite multitude of volunteers: boys were also less than fourteen years of age and older men, intellectuals and artisans , students and workers, professionals and clergy, and monarchists wire wire Republicans. The youth ran from home with only the clothes you were wearing, regular army soldiers left their barracks and remained in the uniform of military equipment. And then there were Young Sicilians Picciotti who wore the most humble and simple peasant clothing. Those who wearing the uniform properly as tradition: red shirt, blue pants, peaked cap and kerchief around his neck were in fact small number, most wearing a civilian suit any going back a bit 'to social class.
residents say that they were still requirements of some houses and other authorities needed water wells and supplies for the troops were thinned grapes in large rows of vineyards low Latin and all sorts of fruit and vegetables in season, which extended so lush in the whole area. Tree branches were used as shingles is to structure the cage that held in enclosed the guns ready for aiming and for another useful training use as curtains. The fields surrounding the vineyards and crops had become camps for the bivouac of these men, their weapons, animals and wagons. That the bombing Bourbon blowing holes in walls, houses, millstones, wine cellars, rickety boats and brought a general terror to those good souls village, already confused and surprised with the exceptional nature of the event and for the new look Political-Military that was evolving. There were no reports whether the New Government Italian Unification has been careful to operate its own free compensation to residents for use and consumption of their private property and for damages suffered in the country.
TORRE FARO ALSO HAD TWO OF HIS CHILDREN AMONG THE VOLUNTEERS Garibaldi
These were Luigi Spinelli, and Antonio ALESSI, that in that epic war campaign in Sicily in 1860 formed a battle group with a large number of volunteers called the "Hunters of the Lighthouse " controlled by the officer Nicola Fabrizio Garibaldi a Modena, and made it also as citizens of Messina Francis SAVONA , Luigi Micali, Salvatore Santantonio, Michelangelo BOTTARI .
On Garibaldini fallen in Torre Faro
Following the attacks and the shelling Bourbon Garibaldi's troops deployed on the item is popular among their ranks several were wounded and perhaps killed four deaths on the ground in this extreme point of land of our sea village of Torre Faro.