Villa Triste, Torture site in Florence, Italy

Villa Triste is a building in Milan located on Via Paolo Uccello that features reinforced walls and a garden with spotlights. Underground cells were added in 1944 to the basement level.

In summer 1944 Pietro Koch, formerly linked to Mario Carità, opened a torture site with his band in via Paolo Uccello, in the requisitioned villa Fossati, built by Temistocle Fossati against the remains of the old church of San Siro alla Vepra to a neo-Renaissance design by Adolfo Zacchi. On 25 September 1944 Justice Minister Piero Pisenti, pressed by Milanese protests and by Archbishop Schuster, ordered its closure.

The name Villa Triste was given by popular memory to the torture sites of the Nazi-Fascists after 8 September 1943. In Florence, a plaque by Piero Calamandrei and a second one placed by the Comune in 2018 on the building at via Bolognese 67 recall the victims of Mario Carità's Reparto Servizi Speciali, active there from September 1943 to August 1944.

The site is the building at Via Paolo Uccello in Milan, requisitioned in 1944 as Villa Fossati; it stands against the remains of the old church of San Siro alla Vepra. It was closed on 25 September 1944, so there is no interior to visit. Look for the church remains beside the building.

The building was originally known as Villa Fossati before taking on its current name, which reflects the dark history of what occurred there. The name developed through collective memory rather than an official change.