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Strongly Horses part of the Intrenched Field of Messina, realized from the General Staff of the Army between 1883 is one of the 24 making forts and 1902, with the scope to defend a paventati part of the southern territory from disembark French, engage to you in that period, one political expansionistic colonial towards Tunisia. This fortified, able work to resist once to the earthquake of 1908 and that it has exceeded undamaged the two world wars, dismesso Military Navy in 1954, has been subordinate to along period of abandonment and degradation. Declared well historical-artistic, the Fort has been recovered and rendered fruibile to the collectivity from the Association "Zancle"-ONLUS Community, than it has obtained it in state property concession in year 2000. The job of Association ONLUS, aimed to give back to the city a forgotten history piece and to reconquer artistic and cultural spaces, door finally its yields.
Against every expectation, Fort Horses is today center of initiatives that are involved schools, families, boys pertaining to the juvenile associazionismo and city yearnings of riappropriarsi of a patrimony that belong to a private city of its history from the earthquake of 1908 and yearning to reconquer the dignitosa image that competes them for its past and its climatic and geographic position in the Mediterranean. In the Public square of Crews of the Fort it has been placed the greatest Italian gun of II the Mondiale(16 War tons for 10 meters of length), donated from the Defense Ministry and declared Monument to the Fallen of All the Wars.
The Historical Museum Horses, Strongly only for tipologia in all the province of Messina, with a flow of beyond 2.500 presences in an activity year, has become one important goal for the tourists and the schools of the province. The persons are not little who ignore the existence of the numerous military structures, for the greater part perfectly integral, that they represent concrete testimonies of our bellicose past. The requirement of perceived defense were a lot in the city of Messina, city of great importance in passed in how much ring of conjunction between the Sicily and the continent, situated in one such position strategic to stimulate the appetites of the powerful ones. Messina, therefore, like the other cities, and perhaps still more, possesses numerous vestigia of structures architectonic of military type, pertaining to several ages, to leave from the classic age until the end of the 1800's: an architectonic patrimony is senz' other still imposing, but, unfortunately, threatened from an expansion building of all the lacking one in criteria. Strongly Horses are still equal to like, in far away ` the 800 assumed defensive function. First of the Forts of the South the sight controlled on the Jonio and still today the visual width is ditched that renders it one of the more spectacular panoramic places of the city of Messina.
It was therefore the fortification mails to defense of the southern access of the strait, from coming from incursions is from the high that give the Ionian bottom. It rises online of air nearly of forehead to the city of Reggio Calabria. The work is all adding in good state of conservation, has not endured damages during according to world-wide conflict, after which it has been discharged and later on used after warehouse I exploded you for one company engaged in the jobs of construction of the freeway Me - Ct and then abandoned. Its plant is that classic trapezial one, with the ditch very conserved, the caponiera mails on the right and the income centers them to bridge levatoio. It is symmetrical and introduces two rampe lateral in order to go up to the advanced plans, to whose extremities were installed not more today present the telemetriche turrets in steel. The extension on the line of the relief, and in particular of earthwork of combat is greater regarding the other batteries, dates the numerous emplacements of artillery, separated from three riservette ammunitions of ready employment. The battery Gallo/Cavalli Mount is in fact one of the little to having 8 pits for howitzers more two lateral semicircular platforms for the guns, tutt' today visible although the endured jobs of ripiastrellamento in the time. In total the number of artilleries in equipment, even if compound is equal only to that one of the strong Masotto and the strong Petrazza. Also this work, like the others, has endured various pillages and removals, is in fact disappeared railings, elevators, scales and all the ferrous material that was possible to capture. However the concessionaires have gradually brought back the structure in good conditions, rendering it finally fruibile and godibile in all its particular.
Strong the Horses are "Patrimony of the humanity"
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Fortress Cavalli