Carcere degli Scalzi
Carcere degli Scalzi stood in Verona as a prison during the Second World War. Today, the demolished building survives through a plaque marking its resistance history.
Six GAP partisans attacked the prison to free Giovanni Roveda, a trade unionist and founder of the Italian Communist Party. A shootout freed Roveda, but the rescue left several participants wounded, captured, or dead. Aldo Petacchi, Emilio Moretto, Berto Zampieri, Lorenzo Fava, Vittorio Ugolini, and Danilo Preto led the operation. Fava later accepted responsibility for GAP sabotage, securing the release of fifteen citizens accused in his place.
Danilo Preto died after his capture, while Lorenzo Fava was executed at Forte San Procolo aged twenty-five. Their Gold Medals for Military Valor, awarded in 1993, preserve the cost of Verona’s resistance. Giovanni Roveda later became the first mayor of liberated Turin, then served in the Constituent Assembly and Senate. Concetta Fiorio, Moretto’s pregnant wife, was tortured for information, and their children carried the names Danilo and Lorenza in remembrance.
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