Salaparuta Yesterday and Today

The beautiful baroque facade of the church was gone forever. Salvage crews, led by Father Baldassare Graffagnino, would recover valuable church records. But only fragments of everything else remained. ----------------------

The town hall, which had stood facing the church, was left partially standing after the first few shocks (left). But before it was over, there was nothing left. ----------------------------------

The destruction was compared to Montecassino of a generation before. ----------------------

Today, under azure skies, a lonely road weaves its way through abandoned fields of rubble.

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