Alessandro Fantini Mural on the Via Verde dei Trabocchi

The mural is located along the Trabocchi cycle path and was painted on the occasion of the time trial of the 1st stage of the 2023 Giro d'Italia.

Born in Fossacesia on 1 January 1932. Died in Trier (Germany) on 5 May 1961, following a fall at the end of the fourth stage of the Tour of Germany. Sprinter. Tall m. 1.69 per kg 66. Professional from 1955 to 1961 with 15 victories. The classic short and explosive sprinter, with a remarkable combativeness, far from today's version of sprinters. The friendly "Sandrino" from Abruzzo, who moved to Brescia, first for military service and then for marriage, was also admired for the temperament with which he sought victories, attacking repeatedly and then beating the small groups of opponents who they fell out with him. It was the big stage races that brought him to the fore: he won seven stages in the Giro d'Italia (and wore the Maglia Rosa for nine days), two in the Giro d'Italia and three in Germany, one in the Moped Championship. Only one classic, the Milano-Vignola '60, with Gazzola, while previously he had always raced for Atala. The fall at the finish line of the Trier stage, in the Tour of Germany '61 (he had won in Kellminens two days earlier), caused him to fracture his skull and after two days he died, leaving his wife and daughter in despair, as well as an unfinished appreciable career.
All his victories.
1955: Acqui Terme stage (Giro d'Italia); Trieste stage (Giro d'Italia); Millau stage (Tour de France); Rome stop (Criterium Nations). 1956: Genoa stage (Giro d'Italia); Salice Terme stage (Giro d'Italia); Angers stage (Tour de France). 1957: Rieti stage (Motorcycle GP); Catholic stage (Giro d'Italia); Como stage (Giro d'Italia). 1959: San Pellegrino stage (Giro d'Italia). 1960: Munster stage (Tour of Germany); Ludwigshafen stage (Tour of Germany); Milan-Vignola. 1961: Kellminens stage (Tour of Germany).