Monument to Mille Miglia Fallen

Buildings, monuments and squares

Cavriana
strada statale goitese, 46040 Cavriana Mn

Monument to Mille Miglia Fallen it is located in Colomba, on the Strada Statale 236 Goitese, between Cerlongo and Guidizzolo

Monument to Mille Miglia Fallen a Cavriana was erected in memory of the day 12 May 1957, when during the Mille Miglia race, the Spanish driver Alfonso de Portago, with a Ferrari went out of the road at 250 km / h for drilling a tire, due to the accident died him with the navigator and ten other people. Granfondo road races were abolished at the end of the 1930s by Mussolini because of their dangerousness, but after World War II they recovered thanks to the great popularity and international prestige.