Curon Venosta
Stroll around the sunken church (11)

When Mussolini's Fascist party came to power in 1922, it began to implement a policy of forced Italianisation in South Tyrol. Some 1000 place names were translated or invented, the Reschenpass became Passo di Resia and Graun im Vinschgau became Curon Venosta...

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