Where did Alcide De Gasperi grow up and live?

📍Via Alcide De Gasperi 1, 38050 Pieve Tesino (TN), Italy

1881 – 1954

“I was born Alcide Amedeo Francesco De Gasperi on the 3rd of April 1881 in Pieve Tesino, a small mountain village in the Trentino — then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now northern Italy. The mountain village and the Trentino Catholic culture gave me the values that defined my political career: Christian Democracy, European integration, and the patient reconstruction of a democratic Italy from the ruins of Fascism and the Second World War. I was Prime Minister of Italy for eight crucial years from 1945 to 1953 — longer than any other postwar Italian Prime Minister. I was one of the founding fathers of the European project alongside Schuman and Adenauer. Pieve Tesino, the Dolomites above it, the Trentino culture between Austria and Italy — these were the beginning of a European life.”

👍 LovedThe European project and the vision of a continent that would never again destroy itself with war. The reconstruction of Italian democracy after Fascism. The Trentino mountain culture and its values.

👎 DislikedThe Cold War pressures that required choosing between democracy and communism when both were imperfect. The Christian Democrat Party's eventual corruption. The death in 1954 before the European project was complete.

Map showing where Alcide De Gasperi lived — Via Alcide De Gasperi 1, 38050 Pieve Tesino (TN), Italy

🗺️ Approximate location today

Satellite view of Alcide De Gasperi's home at Via Alcide De Gasperi 1, 38050 Pieve Tesino (TN), Italy

Sources: Pombeni, P. Il primo De Gasperi (2007), Il Mulino; Leonardi, R. & Wertman, D. Italian Christian Democracy (1989), Macmillan