Museum of Resistance

The Museum, built in 2005 and moved to its current permanent site, is named after Gian Paolo Larini who, as a young future doctor, worked in the small partisan hospitals of Val Ceno. The support for this initiative was born from the desire to make known above all to the new generations what happened in the mountains of the Parma Apennines during the dramatic months of the partisan war, a segment of our more recent history, often unknown, but I still remember very much alive in the memory of those who lived those tragic moments and heroically helped to restore freedom, democracy and peace, risking their lives. Inside the Museum there are numerous exhibits found almost all in the area of Val Taro, Val Ceno and Val Mozzola. In addition to the objects, there are over seventy testimonies accompanied by documents and photographs, most of them original, which preserve the exclusive interviews of the partisans who delivered this precious material. Worthy of mention among the objects are the partisan uniforms, weapons, documents, containers airlifted by the allies and their contents. Of particular interest are an English made parachute recovered in the Gravago area, three slings of special agents launched in the area, food containers and radio transmitters supplied to the partisan support missions. Exclusively on display is documentation concerning an Italian agent, a local citizen, who was launched into the Bardigiano with the task of bringing the prisoners gathered beyond the front lines (Gothic line).