Museo Cervi

The Museo Cervi (Cervi Museum) in Gattatico presents the history of local resistance to German and fascist occupation from 1943-45, with an emphasis on rural anti-fascist and partisan movements and the experiences of the Cervi family. The seven sons of Alcide and Genoeffa Cervi – Gelindo, Antenore, Aldo, Ferdinando, Agostino, Ovidio, and Ettore – were active in antifascist and partisan resistance along with their father before and during the Second World War. Following the Allied-Italian Armistice and the German occupation of Northern Italy, they were targeted by Italian Social Republic authorities; in November 1943, their family home was surrounded and the brothers taken captive. On December 28, 1943, the brothers were executed together with Italian partisan Quarto Camurri in retaliation for the partisan assassination of Davide Onfian, Italian Social Republic secretary of the town of Bagnolo in Piano. The brothers were posthumously awarded the Silver Medal for Military Valor, and are remembered as significant antifascists.

The museum is located in the Cervi home and includes exhibits on the history of the Cervi Family as well as other examples of rural antifascism and partisan movements. It was established in 2002, and re-inaugurated (with an updated layout) on December 28, 2021.