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ROME, ITALY - 15 JULY 2015: The bedroom of Giovannia Torlonia used by Benito Mussolini during his stay in Villa Torlonia from 1925 to 1943, is here in the Casino Nobile (home to the Villa Torlonia Museum), in Villa Torlonia, Rome, Italy, on July 15th 2015.

Villa Torlonia is a villa and surrounding gardens formerly belonging to the Torlonia family, a Roman noble family who acquired a huge fortune in the 18th and 19th centuries through administering the finances of the Vatican. In 1925 the Villa was given to Mussolini as a residence, where he remained until 1943, with few changes to the aboveground structures. Between 1942 and 1943 an air-raid shelter was first built in the garden of the villa, and then a much larger and more complex airtight bunker was built under the villa itself, with the intention of resisting both aerial bombardment and chemical warfare.

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ROME, ITALY - 15 JULY 2015: The bedroom of Giovannia Torlonia used by Benito Mussolini during his stay in Villa Torlonia from 1925 to 1943, is here in the Casino Nobile (home to the Villa Torlonia Museum), in Villa Torlonia, Rome, Italy, on July 15th 2015.<br /> <br /> Villa Torlonia is a villa and surrounding gardens formerly belonging to the Torlonia family, a Roman noble family who acquired a huge fortune in the 18th and 19th centuries through administering the finances of the Vatican. In 1925 the Villa was given to Mussolini as a residence, where he remained until 1943, with few changes to the aboveground structures. Between 1942 and 1943 an air-raid shelter was first built in the garden of the villa, and then a much larger and more complex airtight bunker was built under the villa itself, with the intention of resisting both aerial bombardment and chemical warfare.