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This project intends to identify “places of memory” or “symbolic sites of belonging”
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referring to the expulsion of the Nazi-fascist forces and the victory of the Allied Armies
in the region.
Certainly, these two theoretical concepts of “places of memory” and “symbolic sites
of belonging” help to better understand the routing or cultural itinerary Project. For the
French historian Pierre Nora “places of memory” would be spaces where the idea of her-

itage and physical space (material) and also would serve as a support and vehicle for the
formation and preservation of a collective memory (immaterial), while for Zaoal, these
“places” or “spaces” can also be thought from the perspective of a social group identity,
to the extent that what is material, a monument, a fort or a castle, for example, generates
feelings of belonging and emotional attachment to a collectivity.
The Army Historic and Cultural Heritage Directory (DPHCEx) attended the launch
of the “Gothic Line Project” covering much of the historical and cultural future itiner-
ary and also inaugurating a Center for Studies among researchers of the two countries,
essential step in the preservation and dissemination of Brazilian participation in the
liberation of that friendly nation. Different places of extreme symbolic value for Brazil
and for the project itself were visited, for being the “stage” of the major battles in the
area, such as the trenches of Castle Hill, the Bombiana church, the Museum of Montese,
the Votive Brazilian Soldier Monument in the Cemetery Pistoia, among other “places”.
Thus, the routing of FEB paths is inserted in this aforementioned present paradox
where we seek references in our common past to get to know each other and identify
ourselves with something. Within this context, the University of Bologna has also sup-
ported the communes involved in “Gothic Line Project “, through a scientific support.
In this sense, all professionals who deal with “cultural object”, in all its nuances and
capabilities, should not lose sight of that acceptance or rejection of these proposed sym-
bols, being them monuments, historic sites or same routes, because they may reveal ex-
isting “roots “ in the popular imagination, being incumbent to verify the ability to work
on these symbols and redo this imaginary according to the new values of this society that

is ever changing and in movement.
As Baczko , another theorist of the social imaginary, would say war, revolutions,
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the so-called “hot times” “ is a strongly marked period to sedimentary imaginary that
are perpetuated in society, taking these images and understandings beyond political and
economic time , being closer to the time of mentalities, slower, difficult to remove, no
wonder what the Tuscany region tries to systematize. Notably, many Italian and Brazil-
ian tourists already do it, empirically, when run through the same routes where the old
‘pracinhas’ and partigiani fought seeing rivers and elevations of the region, contemplat-
ing the monuments that remain from the period, visiting and redefining a story that does
not die, but live forever.

4 NORA, Pierre.Entre memória e história: a problemática dos lugares. Projeto História. São Paulo: PUC-SP.
n° 10. 1993.
5 ZAOUAL, Hassan. Globalização e Diversidade Cultural. São Paulo, Cortez, 2003.
6 BACZKO, Bronislaw. “A imaginação social” In: Leach, Edmund et Alii. Anthropos-Homem.Lisboa,Imprensa
Nacional/Casa da Moeda, 1985.