Museum POW camp 107 - Villaggio Roma

About the museum

Prisoners of war camp No. 107 was built in Torviscosa at the request of a large Italian company, SNIA Viscosa, with the aim of using the prisoners in its agricultural activities. It became operational in 1942 and about a thousand New Zealand and South African prisoners enlisted in the British armies were interned there until the armistice in 1943.  The war camp was decommissioned after the armistice but was immediately converted into a village to house SNIA workers. After the Second World War, it took the name Villaggio Roma.

Inside the former primary school, there is an exhibition that tells the story of Villaggio Roma, from the prisoner-of-war camp 107 to the SAICI - SNIA Viscosa workers' village, and a large model depicting Villaggio Roma in the early 1950s, when the prison camp barracks had not yet been destroyed, but only converted into housing.