Thousands of supporters of former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini marched in his birthplace on Sunday.
They celebrated the 100th anniversary of the "March on Rome" that ushered in the rule of fascism.
According to police estimates, around 2,000 people gathered in the small mountain village of Predappio in northern Italy, where the fascist leader is buried.
Some participants expressed their sympathy for the new Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
"I would have voted for Lucifer if he had defeated the left in Italy," organizer Mirco Santarelli said, according to the Italian news agency Ansa.
"I'm glad we have the Meloni government," he added.
Meloni, with her party Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy, FDI), has led Italy's far-right government since the founding of the republic in 1946.
In the decades following World War II, the FDI had been a gathering place for nostalgics of fascist tyranny under dictator Mussolini.
However, in her first speech as Prime Minister, Meloni distanced herself from fascism.
Black clothes and fascist salute
Mussolini's family tomb is a place of pilgrimage that attracts tens of thousands of visitors every year.
Many participants in Sunday's 100-year celebrations marched in black clothing, a reference to the infamous "black shirts," Mussolini's paramilitary militias.
Some also raised their right arm in a fascist salute, despite organizers' requests that this not be done.
During the "March on Rome" on October 28, 1922, Mussolini's paramilitary troops invaded the Italian capital and seized power.
The fascist regime, characterized by authoritarianism and nationalism, lasted until 1943.
Mussolini was shot dead by partisans towards the end of World War II, in April 1945.
His body was hung in a square in Milan and mistreated.
Already on Friday there was an event in Predappio celebrating the liberation of the city from troops of the fascists and Nazi Germany on October 28, 1944.