Monte Cassino

On our way to Caserta today we visited the abbey at Monte Cassino. This was destroyed in WW2 as it was believed to be occupied by Nazi forces blocking the allied assault on Rome and Northern Italy. It is perched high up above the town of Cassino. It was very old and totally rebuilt after the war ended. It took 20 years of rebuilding. 50000 people died before the allied forces took it in 1944. It occupies a very strategic point.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caserta
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Cassino