Piazza San Sepolcro

During the Roman period the piazza was the forum at the intersection of the cardo and the decumanus.

On March 23, 1919 Benito Mussolini founded the Fasci di combattimento at a rally held at the piazza.

Participants of this rally were known as sansepolcristi, and were granted special privileges under the regime.

The term Sansepolcrismo, however, pointed to the original spirit of the movement of Fasci di combattimento in which, alongside nationalist ideas and combative myths, there were strong instances of social palingenesis, egalitarianism and even republican components.

Futurist poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti composed "Il poema dei sansepolcristi" in commemoration of the event.