Força Expedicionária Brasileira

During World War II, Italy became one of the main theaters of war in Europe.

Few people know that, during World War II, thousands of young Brazilians crossed the ocean to fight in a country they did not know, speaking a language that was not theirs, but defending universal values: freedom, justice, dignity.

They were the soldiers of the Força Expedicionária Brasileira (F.E.B.), the army sent by Brazil alongside the Allies who fought along the Gothic Line between 1944 and 1945, facing the hardships of the cold, the mountains and a war far from home.

Why remember the F.E.B. today?

Because their history teaches us that war is not just a matter of maps and strategies, but made of courageous choices, faces, unexpected encounters between distant worlds.

The presence of the F.E.B. in Castel d'Aiano is still remembered with great respect in our community...even if history has forgotten it.

Our Museum preserves objects, photographs and testimonies that tell the extraordinary story of these soldiers who came from far away to defend freedom in an unknown land.