Manifattura delle Arti
Restored industrial complex of a former slaughterhouse and tobacco factory, now a cultural hub of galleries, film archive and university arts labs.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Manifattura delle Arti in Bologna follows a garden plaque reading John Klemlen, the alias of Samuel Schneider, a South African airman who joined the partisans holed up in the ruined municipal slaughterhouse on this site. It traces the Seventh GAP brigade, roughly seventy fighters led by a man known only as Aldo, and the dawn of November 7, 1944, when some two hundred fifty fascist and German forces surrounded the block with an artillery gun and a tank. Two hundred thirty more fighters waited that whole day among the ruins of the old hospital nearby, while the defenders held these walls under fire from windows now long gone.
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