Caserma Orlando De Tommaso

The Caserma Orlando De Tommaso (originally Caserma Vittorio Emanuele II ) is a barracks of the Carabinieri in the Italian capital Rome . The barracks are part of a larger, partly no longer military complex on Viale Giulio Cesare in the Prati district , a few hundred meters north of Castel Sant'Angelo and the Vatican . The barracks can be reached with line A of the Metropolitana di Roma , stations Lepanto and Ottaviano .

history

General

After the papal state was completely eliminated in the course of the unification of Italy in 1870 and Rome became the Italian capital, the construction of a number of new government buildings and new barracks was planned there. The Parliament decided in May 1881 in Rome several barracks, a military hospital and a new official residence for the War Department to build. The new barracks were mainly built on the Prati di Castello meadow, which was then located outside the city gates and was generally intended for the expansion of the city. Between 1882 and 1889, four neo-renaissance barracks were built between today's streets Viale Giulio Cesare in the south and Viale delle Milizie in the north . From west to east these were the Caserma Vittorio Emanuele II (from 1947 Caserma Orlando De Tommaso ), the Caserma Regina Margherita (from 1947 Caserma Luciano Manara ), the Caserma Principe di Napoli (from 1947 Caserma Nazario Sauro ) and finally the Caserma Cavour . Each of these barracks was designed for a regiment . The open area in the north up to the foot of Monte Mario should serve as a practice area.

The Cavour barracks was used by engineer units that later became the Italian Air Force . Aviation pioneers Maurizio Moris , Gaetano Arturo Crocco and others worked in this barracks and on the aforementioned training ground . Among other things, a first rudimentary wind tunnel and a hydrodynamic test facility were built in the barracks . Today it serves as the seat of a civil court. The barracks Principe di Napoli / Nazario Sauro and Regina Margherita / Luciano Manara were used by the army and also by the Carabinieri until 2017 , first as troop accommodation, later as accommodation for various support or administrative departments and, in the case of the Manara barracks, as headquarters of the Military Court of Rome . In the two army barracks Nazario Sauro and Luciano Manara , as in the Cavour barracks, civil justice services, including court offices, are to be housed. The De Tommaso barracks are still used by the Carabinieri.

De Tommaso barracks

The barracks, initially named after King Viktor Emanuel II , are historically and architecturally closely linked to the Caserma Cernaia in Turin . The Carabinieri training legion was located in the Turin barracks until 1885 and trained recruits there. Since a more central location was needed for this legion in the new nation-state, the choice fell on one of the new barracks on the Prati di Castello , which was similar to the monumental barracks in Turin. The training legion moved to Rome in 1885. A branch remained in Turin, which was temporarily expanded and made into a second training legion. The training legion in Rome received a troop flag in 1894 , which also became the troop flag of the Carabinieri troops and is kept in the De Tommaso barracks to this day.

During the Second World War , the deposed dictator Benito Mussolini was arrested by Carabinieri on July 25, 1943 and held in the barracks of the Roman training legion until the following day. Shortly after the Cassibile armistice , the German Wehrmacht occupied Rome and most of Italy in September 1943. During the fighting against German troops on September 9, 1943 in Magliana near Rome, the chief of the 4th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Training Legion, Captain Orlando De Tommaso, fell at the head of his recruits. The barracks were named after him after the abolition of the monarchy. The general command (high command) of the Carabinieri, which was located in Cava de 'Tirreni near Salerno during the German occupation , moved to the barracks of the training legion on June 5, 1944 in the course of the liberation of Rome by the Allies and remained there until 1956 (since then in the Hazon barracks, ⊙ ). At the same time, training was resumed in the barracks and continues there to this day. 41.9266 12.4931

The training legion in the De Tommaso barracks was renamed in 1971 in "Rome Recruits School". The traditional name "Training Legion" was taken over in 2008 by a training command to which all Carabinieri recruit schools are subordinate. The barracks complex now houses the Carabinieri training command, the command of the training legion for men , the Rome recruiting school, the military and police history office of the Carabinieri and their music corps . The barracks also serve as a venue for military ceremonies, including handing over of command at the head of the carabinieri.

Furnishing

In the De Tommaso barracks there are today, among other things: a large lecture hall, ten general classrooms, two multimedia rooms, a film room, a language laboratory , a training control center , an apartment for simulating house searches, a shooting range , a gym and a library .

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