Museum of Operation Avalanche

After the landings in Sicily (July 1943) and Calabria (3 September 1943), the Anglo-Americans developed a third phase to consolidate the beginning of the Italian campaign. On 9^th September 1943 they landed on the coast of the Gulf of Salerno, known as Operation Avalanche. General Albert Kesselring’s German troops put up a fierce resistance, but after a few days of close combat, the Nazis were forced to retreat north, heading for Naples. When the first Allied troops arrived in Naples on 1^st October 1943, they found the city had already been liberated through a popular uprising known as the Four Days of Naples.

Located within the monumental complex of the Santissima Trinità Church, the Museum, inaugurated in September 2012, houses numerous Italian, German, and Allied artifacts, as well as diaries, private documents, photographs, and film projections. The ‘Emotional Room’ almost transports visitors directly to the battlefields. Two specific tours focus respectively on the experience of war in Eboli and on the crucial stages that marked the liberation of the southern territory, from the Sele plain to Cassino.