P.S. A little more about Brindisi


Forgot to mention that Brindisi still recalls its days during the two global wars. Brindisi had a fairly strong resistance movement during the second World War  and was part of Operation Slapstick, a plan to open the ports of Brindisi and nearby Taranto to the British to aid in liberation.

We came upon two interesting monuments. The first commerating those soldiers who lost their lives in World War 1 and the second was erected in 1940 in honor of former King  Victor Emmanuel by none other than Benito Mussolini...Il Duce...not a name seen much publically these days.

Brindisi also had a much more recent WW2 event. Construction workers in 2019 came across an unexploded British bomb, forcing the evacuation of thousands of people. Fortunately, no casualties resulted and the bomb was safely detonated.



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