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[Nathan]

I'm currently planning a trip to Italy, France, Switzerland and southern Germany.
I would very much like to visist the home towns and grave sites of some of the great past drivers. I was wondering if anyone can help me locate the following drivers birth places and most importantly burial sites. I would like to pay my respects to may favorite drivers of the past. Thanks. I apologize for the in correct spelling Im in a hurry....

Enzo Ferrari
Tazio Nuvolari
Bernd Rosemeyer
Achille Varzi
Alberto Ascari
Rudolf Caracciola
Vittorio Jano
Alfred Neubauer

And yes there is a reason for the order.
Also is Fangio buried in Argentina?

[Barry Lake]

Nathan
Interesting idea.
There is a Tazio Nuvolari Museum in Mantua (sadly I have yet to see it, but have spoken to people who have been there).
I have stopped a couple of times to see the marker stone where Bernd Rosemeyer was killed. It is on the Frankfurt-Darmstadt Autobahn - which is one of the old, straight, pre-war Autobahns. It isn't clearly marked. I think I found it by having a kilometre mark to look for (possibly in the book Rosemeyer). You have to be travelling north from Darmstadt towards Frankfurt and when you get to the area (I remember now, it is in one of the books or magazine stories and says "between km xx and km xx".
There was (in the late 1980s) just wheel tracks going off into the trees and there, in a small clearing, was the marker stone - both times I went there, with fresh flowers on it.
I also remember Fangio saying (how's that for name dropping?) that the Varzi family still live in the same house in Galliate where Fangio used to stay whenever he was in Europe (after Varzi's death).
Galliate is between Milan and Turin, not far off the main road and well sign-posted, I went past it (on business, as usual, no time to stop) only last July.
As for the rest, I have no idea, but would be interested to know.
I would think that Enzo Ferrari would be easy enough to find.

[Ray Bell]

Europe's full of dead stuff to look at. Old circuits like Berne would capture my interest quickly.
I do remember at Le Mans just wandering around the back of a grandstand (I might have been looking for a toilet or something) and seeing a little (much ignored) plaque remembering Robert Benoist, his pre-war win at the circuit and his wartime exploits and death at the hands of the Nazis.
At Berne you might see where Caracciola finally ended his career, or where Varzi died, by the way.

[Leif Snellman]

Here are a few to begin with:

Nuvolari was born in Casteldario, Near Mantua. He died in Mantua and is probably also buried there.

Rosemeyer was born in Lingen, (near the Dutch border). There is a memorial at the Frankfurt-Darmstadt highway, about 2 km south of the Langen-Mörelden crossing,
but Rosemeyer is buried in Berlin (Waldfriedhof Dahlem, Hüttenweg 47).
Varzi was born in Galliante, near Milan.
Ascari in Milan.
Caracciola was born in Remagen (near Bonn).

[Dennis David]

Caracciola is buried in the Castagnola cemetery in Lugano, Switzerland

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