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The Historical Room of the Resistance of Domodossola, also known as the Council Room, is a room of the Town Hall, where from September 9 to October 22, 1944 the provisional Government Council of the Partisan Republic of Ossola met.
Exceptionally in the place of honour, usually reserved for the Head of State, there is the portrait of Ettore Tibaldi, illustrious doctor who was called by the partisan formations to preside over the provisional government council of the Ossola Valleys freed from Nazi-Fascist oppression. On the walls of the room there are photographic panels with captions that reconstruct the most significant moments of the Resistance in the Ossola, from the first rebellion in Villadossola to the long guerrilla war in the mountains, from the entrance of the partisan formations into the capital after the surrender of the Nazifascists to the fall of the small Republic.
There is also a faithful reproduction of the old horseshoe table around which the Government Commissioners held their meetings, experiencing the first model of democracy during the forty days of freedom. Under glass, copies of documents issued by the Government of the liberated territory or fascist source and copies of newspapers of the period were placed along the table. A shrine holds the ancient civic banner decorated with a gold medal of military valour for the events that the room commemorates. On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Republic of Ossola, the room has been renovated and the new inauguration took place on February 17, 2006.
