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Civitella In Val Di Chiana

Oliveto Village – Historic Village of Oliveto loop from Civitella in Val di Chiana

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Italy

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Arezzo

Civitella In Val Di Chiana

Oliveto Village – Historic Village of Oliveto loop from Civitella in Val di Chiana

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Oliveto Village – Historic Village of Oliveto loop from Civitella in Val di Chiana

03:36

12.9km

250m

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Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: August 5, 2026

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181 m

Villa Oliveto Internment Camp

Highlight • Historical Site

The building was built in the Renaissance as the residence of the Counts Barbolani di Montauto; in 1927 it was purchased by the Mazzi family. In 1934 the Villa was used as a paramilitary training camp for the Ustasha. In 1940-44, after the promulgation of the racial laws in Italy, it was an internment camp for Jews and foreign civilians. The structure had a capacity of approximately 79 people. The lack of hygiene and sanitary services, the chronic lack of water, the inadequacy of the kitchens made the living conditions in the camp very precarious. The arrival on 28 January 1942 of Jewish families from Libya (for a total of 51 people) made the situation even more difficult, given the presence of numerous children and pregnant women. In June 1942 it was therefore decided that the structure would be reserved only for them, with all the other internees being transferred to other locations. With the fall of fascism in the summer of 1943, the doors of the camp were temporarily opened, but most of the internees remained there, having nowhere else to go. On 23 November 1943, now under the control of the Italian Social Republic, the camp took on the function of a provincial concentration camp, as a prelude to deportation. On 5 February 1944, about sixty people were taken from the camp to the prison in Florence and then to the Fossoli camp. Since they were Jews of English nationality, they were not destined to die in Auschwitz but deported as hostages to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they lived for 4 months before the Liberation. The Oliveto camp, where only about ten people remained, was definitively closed in May-June 1944.

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