OREANDA-NEWS  The Italian municipality of Riccione has bought the summer residence of dictator Benito Mussolini in Rimini for 1.2 million euros (111 million rubles). This was reported by the Bild newspaper.

According to Riccione Mayor Daniela Angelini, this was done in order to prevent the dictator's nostalgic fans from seizing the villa. "There are still numerous supporters of the dictator in Italy, including in the ruling Fratelli d'Italia party of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. The Riccione authorities do not deny their difficult past, but try to critically rethink it through culture," she said.

The villa was built in 1890, and in 1934 it became the summer residence of Benito Mussolini. He was vacationing with his family in this house. The municipality uses the building as a cultural and exhibition center and plans to organize the Villa Mussolini Intangible Cultural Heritage center and archive there.

Earlier in Britain, a mansion was sold at the highest price in the world. The amount of the record-breaking expensive sale of one house was 270 million pounds (350 million dollars).