Up to six others are feared to be buried in the rubble of the apartment block in
Torre Annunziata, near the Italian city of Naples.
The cause of the collapse in the town of
Torre Annunziata is still unknown and local prosecutors have opened an investigation.
The 1891, including variants, was manufactured at the state arsenals at Turin, Terni, Rome and Brescia, and the
Torre Annunziata Company in Naples, Fabbrica Nazionale d' Armi in Brescia and Beretta in Gardone.
One of the archival photos linked to this wall recently came into our hands from a private collector in the town of
Torre Annunziata. It shows what the atrium looked like when Princess Margaret visited the villa in 1973, years before it was open to the public.
WHEN HIS FATHER DIED, a friend of mine inherited a hotel in the town of
Torre Annunziata, the site of a beautiful ancient Roman villa about fifteen miles southeast of Naples, and expected to take over the family business.
While the various Italian Government arsenals of Temi, Brescia,
Torre Annunziata and Torino geared up to increase the production output of Mannlicher-Carcano's for the war effort, a conversion program was undertaken to alter large numbers of the then obsolete Vetterli-Vitali rifles and carbines to fire the standard 6.5x52mm Carcano cartridge.
ABB will upgrade the Novartis
Torre Annunziata plant in Italy, allowing the site to have multi-purpose fermentation production capabilities.