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Milan, 8 November 2023 - It was presented this morning at Palazzo Marino "City Escape Piazza Fontana", a project created to tell boys and girls aged 15 and over what happened on 12 December 1969 in the headquarters of the Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura: the Piazza Fontana massacre. 
The initiative is promoted by City of Milan within the platform "Milan is Memory", for its innovative value in transmitting and spreading knowledge of facts and events concerning Milan and its identity. 
The councilor for youth policies of the Municipality of Milan participated in the presentation Martina Riva, the delegate of the Mayor's Cabinet for the coordination of "Milano è Memoria" Luca Gibillini, the president of the family associations of the victims of Piazza Fontana, Federico Sinicato, for Garipalli the CEO Luca De Bellis and the creative director Simone Radaelli, the Project Manager Factanza Media, Maria Russo.  
Also present were the President of Anpi Milano, Roberto Cenati e Paolo Silva son of one of the victims.  
 
The Piazza Fontana massacre in which 17 people died and another 88 were seriously injured was the beginning in Milan of a period of terrorist attacks, innocent deaths, misdirections, trials and falsehoods which only in recent years, thanks to the strenuous demand for justice , of the victims' families, saw the truth about the instigators and perpetrators being revealed. A relatively recent history of our city about which much has been said and written but which many people still don't know today, especially the younger ones. 
 
"City Escape Piazza Fontana" is the result of the collaboration between Garipalli e Average Factanza, two innovative startups that intend to offer new generations useful tools to understand the world they live in. It is the first City Escape in Italy designed to talk about the places of historical interest that have marked our country, an interactive experience that combines documentary research and digital tools, reading and investigation, critical sense and discovery of the truth. 
Participation in "City Escape Piazza Fontana" is free and available every day, until December 12th. Anyone will be able to immerse themselves in this story of our contemporary history by moving, alone or in a small group, on a path of reconstruction of the facts guided by enigmas, key documents, places in the city. The experience lasts approximately 90 minutes and is suitable for all ages, from 15 years old and up. Taken back in time to 1969, the participants (mainly young people and students) will go through the events of that year and that December which culminated with the explosion of the bomb in the bank hall, the massacre, the funerals of the victims and the dismay of an entire city. Within the interactive path the Fourth Estate, represented by the press and other sources of information, takes on the key guiding role. Newspapers, original testimonies and breaking news will guide participants towards actively reconstructing the factors that led to the attack. 
 
To participate you must register on the Garipalli platform at the link https://garipalli.com/products/city-escape-milano-piazza-fontana and go to Piazza Diaz following the directions you receive upon registration. 
 
“It is essential to find a way to explain and tell, especially to young people, in their own language, what happened on 12 December 1969 - commented the councilor for Youth Policies Martina Riva -. From this perspective, the experience proposed by 'City Escape Piazza Fontana' is loaded with important educational and civic value. Involved in the search for the truth, girls and boys will be able to learn about an event that marked the history of Milan and Italy, remembering it." 
 
“We are happy - declared Federico Sinicato, President of the Association of the families of the victims of Piazza Fontana - that there is interest among young men and women in this matter. Piazza Fontana deserves that the new generations face it and take charge of it. It was a turning point that marked the history of our country and took root in the path that Italy has taken. This is why it must be studied and understood with all possible tools, even the most innovative." 
 
Garipalli's City Escapes are interactive experiences to be enjoyed outdoors, dedicated to the discovery of Italian cities and their history through storytelling and gamification. The appointment with Piazza Fontana was born precisely from the desire to tell in a new way the historical events that are the protagonists of "Rewind": the Factanza Media podcast that recounts the Italian post-war period through the events that shaped Italy today. A podcast that has collected hundreds of thousands of listens since last spring, demonstrating against all prejudice the younger audience's interest in the history of their country. 
 
Luca De Bellis, CEO of Garipalli, explained “We are excited to return to Milan with a new adventure and to tell a much more recent story this time. We wanted to reach the public with a careful and well-informed narrative, and to do so we wanted to involve a reality that had a profound knowledge of the subject and that, like us, spoke to young people. Factanza has the same values ​​as us, and with an already active podcast on the subject it was a natural choice." 
 
Livia Viganò, COO of Factanza Media: “Factanza's mission has always been to make new generations more informed and aware of the world around them. In this process, knowing history is fundamental, yet often at school we are unable to explain events from the post-war period onwards. We, with our podcast, have tried to do it with the approach that distinguishes us: educational and engaging. It was a great success and now, together with Garipalli, we want to bring all this from digital to physical, building a unique experience for those who want to know even more deeply the dynamics of the events we told them in the podcast". 
 
Garipalli is a startup for culture created to offer innovative and unconventional tools to bring young people closer to culture. Through City Escape and other interactive storytelling formats, Garipalli wants to help young people understand the past world, navigate today's world and make informed decisions for the future one. With 21 active experiences in over 16 Italian cities, Garipalli has helped over 25.000 young people to rediscover culture, history and territory. All information on garipalli.com 
 
Factanza Media is a media company created to revolutionize the world of information, adapting it to the needs of the new generations. Every day on its social channels - where it has over a million followers - it disseminates the fundamental information to be updated on current events in just a few minutes, with formats created to capture attention and make users more aware of what is happening in the world. Factanza's mission is to make information accessible and exciting for everyone, in particular for GenZ and Millennials (protagonists of the information gap of our century), in order to allow them to make free and informed decisions and have an impact on reality that surrounds them.