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2 unusual facts about Ponte Tresa


Leone Ginzburg

Soon after this, he and 14 other young Turinese Jews, including Sion Segre Amar, were arrested for complicity in the so-called "Ponte Tresa Affair" (they were carrying anti-fascist literature over the border from Switzerland), but Ginzburg's sentence was light.

Ponte Tresa

The history of the town is closely tied to the Tresa river crossing, which was first mentioned in 590 by Gregory of Tours.



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