Italy on Saturday celebrated the 70th anniversary of a partisan uprising against the Nazis and their Fascist allies near the end of World War II.
President Sergio Mattarella marked Liberation Day by laying a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier in Rome.
The anniversary marks the day in 1945 when the Italian resistance movement proclaimed an insurgency as the Allies were pushing German forces out of the peninsula.
Within days, Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was captured, shot, and hung by his feet in a square in Milan, along with his mistress. German forces surrendered in Italy just over a week before signing an unconditional surrender to the Allies on May 7, 1945. - AP