Questo monumento è stato costruito in onore dei 15 partigiani italiani e francesi giustiziati il 12 agosto 1944, dopo 2 giorni e 3 notti di torture.
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In mid-July 1944, a detachment of Italian partisans from Liguria set up camp under Mount Grammondo around the L'Albarea farm, some six kilometers from the village of Sospel. They were soon joined by four French volunteers from Breil, Roquebrune-Cap Martin and Sospel, hence the nickname L'Albarea Franco-Italian maquis. Denounced by a transalpine merchant from Sospel furious at having been requisitioned by envoys from the maquis, the detachment was surrounded at dawn on August 9 by German...