When I was a kid I suspected that this massive structure on the top of “Monte Burrone” (Mount Ravine) was a money bin of sort, like the one where Scrooge McDuck stored his dollars.
The huge “cube” was part of the mausoleum of Costanzo Ciano, the powerful local Fascist leader whose son Galeazzo married Edda, the daughter of Mussolini.
It was practically intended as a giant plinth for a 12 meter statue honoring him as naval commander and as the base for a 50 meter tall fasces-shaped light.
The war and the fall of the Fascist regime stopped the works, then the Germans blew up the light. The building and the surrounding area, not far from Montenero, had been abandoned since.
Part of the half-finished statue still lies in a cave on the island of Santo Stefano, in the Maddalena archipelago of northern Sardinia.(Pictures of the project and of the statue from:
Mausoleo di Costanzo Ciano: un pezzo di storia tra i rifiuti)
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