Forte Braschi is one of the 15 forts of Rome, built in the period between 1877 and 1891 to constitute the "entrenched field of Rome".
It is located in the

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Q. XIV

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, within the

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History

It was built starting from 1877 and completed in 1881, on a surface of along Via della Pineta Sacchetti. The area on which it was built belonged to Cardinal

Romoaldo Braschi-Onesti Romoaldo Braschi-Onesti (Cesena, 19 July 1753 – Rome, 30 April 1817) was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Life His uncle, Pope Pius VI, made him a cardinal on 18 December 1786, making him the last cardinal-nephew to date (in the n ...

, from which it takes its name. Since 1925, having ceased its strategic function, it has hosted the military

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, such as the ''Servizio Informazioni Militare'' (SIM). On 29 May 1931, the fort was the scene of the shooting of the anarchist

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, convicted of planning an attempt on

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.See Dell'Osa, p. 88. Since the second postwar period it has hosted the ''Servizio Informazioni Forze Armate'' (SIFAR) and the ''Servizio Informazioni Difesa'' (SID). From 1977 to 2007 it housed the operation center of the military intelligence, the ''Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Militare'' (SISMI). It currently houses the headquarters of the ''Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza Esterna'' (AISE) and of the ''Raggruppamento Unità Difesa'' (RUD). It is entitled to

Nicola Calipari Nicola Calipari (June 23, 1953March 4, 2005) was an Italian major general and SISMI military intelligence officer. Calipari was accidentally killed by American soldiers while escorting a recently released Italian hostage, journalist Giuliana Sg ...

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* * {{Cite web, url=https://romanatura.roma.it/area_interesse/9, title=I Forti Trionfale, Monte Mario, Braschi, Bravetta, author=Francesca d'Angelo, website=RomaNatura, accessdate=10 April 2020 Forts in Italy