The CeDRiS - Documentation and Historical Research Center of Gotica Toscana
Member of North Apennines Po Valley Park
Restoration project of a public building owned by the Scarperia Community
The building, owned by the Scarperia Community, was assigned to Gotica Toscana onlus starting from Frebruary 5 2011. The restoration lasts six months. Starting from September 24 2011 it is the Documentation and Historical Research Centre and the HQ of Gotica Toscana. The Centre hosts also a WW2 museum mainly dedicated to the Gothic Line.
Now, the CeDRiS hosts an exhibition on the Mt. Altuzzo Battle and, until September 2015 , an exhibition on the Liberation of Florence.
The CDRS library
The CDRS offers to the members, visitors and researchers a thematic collection of books. The CDRS library actually counts more than 500 books on WW2 subjects. The library contains books donated by the Milani Family, the Vertova Family and by the "Claude Moore Health Sciences Library" of the University of Virginia Health System - Historical Collection & Services. All the books are available at the museum, please contact us in advance, the contacts are there.
The Library catalog is available in pdf format.
The Exhibitions
“Agosto 1944 - Firenze Libera!” 70th of the Liberation of Florence
Findings, uniforms and pictures
September 2014 - September 2015
“La Lunga Marcia” - 70th of the Russian Campaingn of the Italian Royal Army
October 2013 - September 2014
“El Alamenin e i suoi Ragazzi”
Findings, uniforms and pictures of the El Alamein Battle
June 2012 - April 2013
“The Artillery on the Gothic Line”
Findings, uniforms and pictures
September 2011 - June 2012
Opening time
Saturday and Sunday: from 9:30 to 12:30 and from 15:00 to 18:30. Admittance fee €3,00
Further information available at www.museogotica.it
Visualizzazione ingrandita della mappa
The CeDRiS is part of the North Apennines Po Valley Park.The North Apennines - Po Valley Park (NAPV) is a WWII theme park created to preserve the memory of an often forgotten phase of that conflict: the Italian campaign after the liberation of Rome.
The NAPV is the result of the joint effort by the Gotica Toscana NPA Documentation and Historical Research Center at Ponzalla, near Florence, the WWII Along the Po River Museum at Felonica, near Mantua, the Liberation Memorial Museum in Bologna, and the Winter Line Museum at Livergnano, in the Apennines region. These four exhibition and research centers are placed along the main axis of advance of the Allied armies during the North Apennines and Po Valley campaigns of WWII - hence the chosen name.
The NAPV also constitutes a network of museums and research facilities dedicated to the promotion of guided historical tourism for an international audience. Scholars, researchers, interested visitors, schools, etc., with the help of expert staffs, will find multimedia sources, as well as displays and collections of original objects, to further their knowledge of the war in Italy and the people and soldiers who lived through it..