San Marino, after 48 years makes a photo with the same Guardia di Rocca
Back on the Titan after half a century to be immortalized with the same Guardia di Rocca. If it is not a record, we are close. The protagonists of the story are respectively a Tuscan tourist named Fabio Giusti, and Secondo Cesarini, a member of the Rocca Guard, now retired. Fabio was just a child when his parents encouraged him to take the classic souvenir photo of a trip to the Republic of San Marino. In the shot he smiles excitedly, dark bangs, wearing a beige seventies suit, from which a yellow turtleneck emerges. Perhaps he was struck by the grandeur of the public building, perhaps the colors of the uniform, the fact is that the child asked the name of the soldier and, more surprisingly, he remembered it for 48 long years. So, back in these days on a visit to the Land of the Free, in these days he has asked for information about Cesarini to his colleagues who, from history, have tracked him down closely. as soon as she reached her well-deserved retirement, the former guard said she was ready to dust off the uniform, pulling it out of the closet for the new photo. This time it is he who seems most moved, looking straight into the room, without being at attention. What they have in common is their gray hair, but the old boy is now a man taller than him, strong and sporty because, as the pensioner jokingly commented on Facebook: “When tourists of the last century took home a souvenir photograph , with the guard at the public palace, “a più giuvni evening” ».