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19 September 2021 Forlì, Murat's treasures hidden in Modigliana: in a manuscript, 200 years ago, certified as authentic, the king's right arm reports that he has buried stones and rings in the area.
All this could trigger a real treasure hunt in the small town of Modigliana, 4300 souls, in the province of Forlì-Cesena.
The fortune of Gioacchino Murat, king of Naples and general of Napoleon who, fleeing from the Austro-Hungarians, in 1815, decided to "save" his wealth by entrusting them to people in charge of hiding the booty should still be hidden in some part of the Municipality . The story is clear from a letter, dated 21 September 1821, from Antonio Basciana, one of Murat's aides in the field, which has recently come to light. Basciana, in the letter, states that he buried the treasure, then bequeathed to an entrepreneur from Modigliana, Carlo Liverani, who perhaps never managed to recover it.
The document was kept for years by Bruno Maresi, an 80-year-old native of the Romagna village, but resident in Arona, on Lake Maggiore. As reported by Il Resto del Carlino, Maresi contacted a descendant of Carlo, Alessandro Liverani, 55, as well as his distant relative, to introduce him to an unpublished piece of their family's history, handed down by Bruno's woman, Matilde Liverani.
In the letter it is said that in the last expedition alongside Murat, in the Marches, Basciana received from the king "one of his horses, with a large and well-loaded suitcase on top of a portion of his treasure which he wanted in three different places, having foreseen his fall from that throne ". A third of the booty was entrusted to the adjutant of the sovereign. "About two pounds of loose oriental and brilliant pearls enclosed in ten gold boxes, seven rings of large diamonds, another sixteen rings among rubies, emeralds and topazes surrounded by diamonds, six very rare gold repetitions, two dozen silver cutlery gold, about eight thousand large gold coins of different kinds ", writes Basciana in the document found in which he indicates, even if generically, the Modiglianese territory and refers to a map,most likely lost.
It looks like the plot of a film but a third of the booty, in 2014, was unearthed from the castle of Pizzo Calabro (Vibo Valentia), where Gioacchino Murat's cell was located. It was hidden inside a trap door. It therefore remains to be identified where in the Modiglianese territory the third of the Romagna treasure may have been buried.