This article is taken from
Figaro Histoire "The bloody twilight of French Algeria", find in this issue
a special file on this still burning subject, 60 years after the Evian agreements.
Figaro Histoire “The bloody twilight of French Algeria”.
Le Figaro
It was a day in September 1957, in those years of la
dolce vita
when everything seemed possible in Italy, including discovering treasures comparable to those that the soil of Rome once yielded under the dazzled eyes of Michelangelo.
That summer, the construction of the coastal road between Terracina and Gaeta, halfway between Rome and Naples, was in full swing.
When she reached Sperlonga, a small village perched on a spur facing the Tyrrhenian Sea, the engineer Erno Bellante, director of the works and passionate about archeology, offered his help to the superintendent of antiquities Giulio Iacopi to explore the area and particularly the natural lair (
spelunca,
in Latin) which opens onto the beach and gives its name to the small town.
For decades, locals and travelers have found…
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