Its late founder, a Mussolini fan, was accused but never charged as a war criminal.
The Romanoffs, Hitler, Mussolini and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke all reputedly stayed here.
It is a 25-minute collection of video and audio clips from 100 of Mussolini's speeches.
Hitler and Mussolini governed atop turbulent fascist parties in uneasy collaboration with existing elites.
Mussolini at least conquered Ethiopia, but for him and his people the second world war was yet another disaster.
The prolonged newsreel footage of the actual Mussolini is so appalling that the mystery of his success remains unresolved.
Mussolini had provided Zog with money to develop the country and ease poverty.
Historian David Kertzer notes that Cardinal Angelo Ratti became pope just a few months before Mussolini took power in Italy.
"When Mussolini and Hitler visited each other before the war, they would each have their photographers document their trips, " Maddalena said.
Mussolini's only virtue, he said, was that he encouraged Italian football, which for Leo Valiani rivalled history as a worthwhile pursuit.
With Mussolini dead and the Germans defeated, Mr Valiani's committee was in a strong position to help shape Italy's real government.
But Zog believed, probably correctly, that his life was threatened, not just by Mussolini, but by enemies from his tribal days.
It is ironic, not to say sad, that Mussolini would almost certainly have been proud of this extremist and potentially dangerous tract.
Corporatism, an old European menace (think Mussolini), is a much bigger threat.
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He is an unapologetic monarchist (Italy hasn't had a king since before Mussolini) and keeps a photo of Queen Elizabeth in his office.
An unslaked desire for military glory propelled Benito Mussolini to power in 1922, making him in a sense another child of the Risorgimento.
In 1943, German paratroopers, on the orders of Adolf Hitler, seized former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini who was being held prisoner by the government.
In the 1940s, Mussolini had the windows in the centre of corridor (the section that lies over the Ponte Vecchio) widened to impress his guest, Adolf Hitler.
It has been at its present site, on the banks of the Tiber River, since 1938, when Mussolini ordered it placed near the emperor's tomb.
Next to it a stone frieze of heroes included the balding, barrel-chested figure of Benito Mussolini, Italy's dictator at the time the hall was built.
The fight against Hitler and Mussolini was a very precise war.
She refused Mussolini's request to Italianise her name to Maria Giuseppina.
The ghost of Benito Mussolini, Italy's 20th Century Fascist dictator and Duce, dead and gone now for almost 70 years, is still stalking the country's politics.
Albania might be a poor thing, but Mussolini fancied it for his own, seeing the country as a stepping stone to the more glorious prize of Greece.
While the intellectual origins of the corporate state go back much further, the first serious attempt to implement such a system was in 1920s Italy by Benito Mussolini.
In his luggage on his way home after the war he carried, for future study, the brain of Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator who had been killed by partisans.
He was born there, in the Adriatic seaport of Rijeka (now in Croatia), and took Italian nationality when the town was annexed by Mussolini's Italy in 1924 and renamed Fiume.
Having been in power since 2001, he is in fact the longest-serving Italian leader since the 1922-43 dictatorship of Benito Mussolini, some of whose political heirs belong to Mr Berlusconi's coalition.
If Western nations do so, they stand an excellent chance of ending the misrule of the Mussolini-like Butcher of Belgrade, Slobodan Milosevic, and creating conditions essential for peace in the Balkans.
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