Recovered by the Monza Tpc core of the carabinieri archaeological goods plundered by the occupation troops during the Second World War. The operation was carried out thanks to the checks carried out by the military of the Force on e-commerce platforms and specialized sites in the sale of works of art. Checks that have made it possible to identify numerous finds from the Pietro Fedele collection and already stored at the Torre di Pandolfo di Capodiferro in Sessa Aurunca. It is more than 200 finds that Lieutenant Colonel Giuseppe Marseglia, commander of the Tpc Group of the North Center, returns to the superintendent of Sabap for the provinces of Caserta and Benevento during today's press conference in the halls of the Ducal Castle of Sessa Aurunca in the presence of local authorities.
The first findings, the Carabinieri explain, "have made it possible to verify how these finds were of state origin and already museumized in what was known as the Museum of Aurunca Civilization, erected in 1926 by the then Minister of National Education Pietro Fedele. But above all, these are goods plundered by the occupation troops during the second world war". In collaboration with the officials of the Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape Superintendence and the staff of the Central Restoration Institute, the Carabinieri were able to reconstruct the events that saw the Torre di Pandolfo di Capodiferro as the protagonist: a Lombard tower that in 1943 was bombed and razed to the ground by the German occupation troops but not before having plundered it.
A common fate to other cities and places of culture such as Milan, Montecassino, but also Pompeii and the Bourbon Real Ferdinando Bridge that overlooks the Garigliano river where the Germans had started the well-known "Gustav Line". Jewels of our cultural heritage that suffered the war consequences of the Second Conflict. The tower of Pandolfo Capodiferro was granted in the twenties in emphyteusis to Pietro Fedele by the Municipality of Sessa Aurunca owner of the building and the surrounding state area, at his request to create an archaeological museum, for an annual fee of 200 lire and with the obligation to restore it.