Some 10 minutes' walk from Via Appia Antica, this mausoleum commemorates the victims of the worst WWII suffered by Rome. Buried here, outside the Ardeatine Caves, are 335 Italians shot by the Nazis on 24 March 1944 in reprisal for a partisan attack. Following the massacre, the Germans detonated mines to seal the caves and bury the bodies. After the war, the bodies were exhumed, identified and reburied in tombs in the order in which they were found.
The site also has a small museum dedicated to the Italian Resistance; doors close 15 minutes before the rest of the site.
