continue to publish the contribution of on Franco Di Fede Torre Faro and Cape Pelorus. This article has been divided and will be completed over the next few days.
view of the ruins of the old ramparts of the fort and the new building built cylindrical same site as the existing lantern. Pictures taken from year 2011 Franco Di Fede.
THE FORT Maybe there was before the coming of Garibaldi!
Torre Faro, ends of the west by the Tyrrhenian coast that includes in its territory, the so-called beach Roman Mortelle and arrives in east ion until Palace District, for its geographical location at all times has always been considered an important strategic military
war in the last war , right here at Cape Pelorus were deployed three batteries of antiaircraft artillery emplacements Italian to counter the relentless incursions of aircraft Anglo-American , that passed in flight on this point before heading to stick release of deadly bombings on the city of Messina and along the coast up to Mortelle . The same battery during the Battle of Sicily ( 10 July to 17 August 1943 ), Also had the duty to protect the traffic on the routes through the Strait of emergency motozattere Italian and German used for the evacuation of Axis forces from Sicily.
not forget that Messina was awarded the gold medal for military valor, because the city declared a martyr and a victim of glorious war (1940-43).
Also in the same focal point, before the ' Unification of Italy, in ages ranging from ' was Medieval to nineteenth century were built with alacrity, as the threat of enemy attacks became more pressing and insidious, for military protection of the coast substantial defensive works, large and small, that led to this becoming a land impregnable fortress which was considered for this device the most heavily fortified area of \u200b\u200bthe whole Sicily.
is in this rage of military architecture of fortification that will be erected in all probability our Fortino buried?
So returning to that end July 1860, when here came the Garibaldini , most likely, our FORT was found and made in good acceptable conditions of walls and with our three guns fixed in position, but as explained below were not capable of firing: Colonel Vincenzo Orsini, during the Expedition of the Thousand, was appointed Minister of War and Navy in the government formed by Dictator Garibaldi in Sicily and directly by the Supreme Command had provisions to prepare, along this stretch of coast, a series of batteries with their allocation of field artillery pieces, one of which was placed just inside the fence FORT , which in all probability was pre-existing, where they placed in beard a number of guns.
We said this because it is very persuasive and leaves us both puzzled that Garibaldi's army, an army into the fray and improvised as it has always been attacked, in little more than three-week stay in Torre Faro, had the technical capacity building, among a thousand other thoughts and obstacles of various kinds, to put in place immediately a stone fortification and ready to use that strength would have been accessible for more suited to a war of position and defense to an easy deployment to move like theirs, formed by a corps of volunteers with the task of light infantry on the move and ready to attack, very similar to the ancient Veliti of Roman Legions. So much so that it is true, spent the first week of a cantonment Torre Faro , they commit to the military proved to be moved only to cross the Strait at any time of day and night and as soon as possible on board fleets, spread in large groups, in successive waves and on different days, and then passed all men and means, go back to the big marches Peninsula to Campania: as indeed happened.
The same Giuseppe Cesare Abba officer Garibaldi, the most famous poet and chronicler of ' the Thousand , who was also present at Faro, wrote in his Notarelle that were used only "shovel and shovel to plant some guns (in soil)," tools, they both used at that time to Genius Military for speedy work of excavation pitched. And do not write more, and even the Old villagers , so precise and precious memories in other Garibaldi have news to report about it.
present an accurate but simple excavation will give us much more information than in our possession, we will clarify many of our doubts and who knows, you can jump out, to our delight, some new interesting finding to be saved.
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