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Born from a project of enlightenment by Filippo Carlo Ghisilieri, Borgo di Colle Ameno is presented as a complex of red buildings; the initial idea was to create an ideal autonomous city, a center of culture and art, scientific experimentation and craft activities, a core of urban development that included shops, a hospital, stables, warehouses, warehouses, a church, a pottery factory, and of course the manor house with its outbuildings. The baroque oratory, dating back to 1700 and dedicated to Sant'Antonio da Padova is unique in its kind; cruciform in plan, the external facade, which included the hospital, is characterized by two entrance portals and a high bell tower under which is painted a clock. Inside you can see paintings, frescoes, wooden altars and sculptures made by the masters Angelo Gabriello Piò and Mauro Aldrovandini. In 1944, during the Second World War, a camp was established in the village, where the Nazis collected civilians to be used as labor, both for the construction of the Gothic Line and to be transferred to Germany. After the war, graves were found with the remains of 21 people. To remember the victims, a Memory Room was built, in which documents and objects of the period are displayed, which can be visited during guided tours. The village of Colle Ameno is still inhabited, the spaces for craft workshops have been recovered. You can still see one of the original activities of the village: the realization of the ancient ceramics of Colle Ameno white and blue with naturalistic decorations.
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