Description
Former asylum of Mombello (Limbiate, Lombardy, Italy). It was first the residence of Napoleon during the Italian campaign and in 1865 it was transformed into a shelter for the mentally ill. The asylum housed more than 3500 sick people and was a very important reference point for the city of Milan and also for Lombardy. In the list of names of the internees there was also a certain Benito Albino Bernardi, born in 1915, "of aryan race", who was said to be the son of Benito Mussolini. And so was his illegitimate son, but this news had to be hidden. He died on August 26, 1942 at the age of 26, after a long period of hardship, in this asylum. Mombello was finally closed in 1991.