Memories Rooms

Memories Rooms, inaugurated in Siena on 27 January 2007, proposes an itinerary that retraces the history of the city from the beginning of the 20th century, focusing on the crucial themes of fascism and the Resistance, up to the Liberation.

Siena, with its territory, was heavily involved in the events of the twentieth century, which experienced unprecedented social upheavals and war conflicts. Memories Rooms want to be a window that overlooks a historical panorama from which to draw daily reasons for reflection for an ever-renewed civic commitment that broadens the spaces of freedom and social justice opened and conquered by the men and women who were protagonists of those tormented events.

The Rooms acquire greater strength and charm because they are located in the “Casermetta”, which was the seat of the fascists of the Social Republic, where arrested anti-fascists were interrogated and tortured and from where the departments of the National Republican Guard departed for the raids and subsequent shootings of the partisans.

One of the main commitments of the Historical Institute of the Sienese Resistance and the Contemporary Age for the management of such a symbolic place is to make Memories Rooms a space-laboratory for students, through which to learn about one of the most intense and dramatic pieces of Sienese history, but at the same time of exceptional popular and human impulse towards the goals of emancipation social and freedom issues.