Forte Braschi is one of the 15 forts of Rome, built in the period between 1877 and 1891 to constitute the "entrenched field of Rome".
It is located in the Quarter Q. XIV

Trionfale Trionfale () is the 14th of Rome (Italy), identified by the initials Q. XIV. The toponym also indicates the urban zone 19E of Municipio XIV. History Trionfale is among the first 15 '' quartieri'' of the city, originally delimited in 1911 and ...

, within the

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History

It was built starting from 1877 and completed in 1881, on a surface of along Via della Pineta Sacchetti. The area on which it was built belonged to Cardinal

Romoaldo Braschi-Onesti Romoaldo (or Romualdo) Braschi-Onesti (Cesena, 19 July 1753 – Rome, 30 April 1817) was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Life Son of Girolamo Onesti (Cesena, 22 February 1708 - Cesena, 3 April 1790), Marquess and Count Onesti, and wife ...

, from which it takes its name. Since 1925, having ceased its strategic function, it has hosted the military

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, such as the ''Servizio Informazioni Militare'' (SIM). On 29 May 1931, the fort was the scene of the shooting of the anarchist Michele Schirru, convicted of planning an attempt on

Mussolini Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 188328 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who, upon assuming office as Prime Minister, became the dictator of Fascist Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 until his overthrow in 194 ...

.See Dell'Osa, p. 88. Since the second postwar period it has hosted the ''Servizio Informazioni Forze Armate'' (SIFAR) and the ''Servizio Informazioni Difesa'' (SID). From 1977 to 2007 it housed the operation center of the military intelligence, the ''Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Militare'' (SISMI). It currently houses the headquarters of the ''Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza Esterna'' (AISE) and of the ''Raggruppamento Unità Difesa'' (RUD). It is entitled to

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* * {{Cite web, url=https://romanatura.roma.it/area_interesse/9, title=I Forti Trionfale, Monte Mario, Braschi, Bravetta, author=Francesca d'Angelo, website=RomaNatura, accessdate=10 April 2020 Forts in Italy