Did you know that Palazzo Caffarelli, a 16th-century building housing part of Rome's Capitoline Museums in the heart of the city's most "sacred" spot, was from 1817 until the beginning of World War I the seat of the Prussian embassy?

And that in 1919, in the wake of post-war nationalism, it was demolished, just like that, with the aim of completely erasing the traces of the German presence in Italy?

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Fonte: Italy24