Dear Blog Reader… After a 6 hour train ride from Venice we arrived in Giulianova, Italy. These next few days are about my family history…might be a little boring ;-) but you're welcome to read ... Archaeological findings show that the area around Colonnella, Italy was inhabited since Neolithic times, then in the pre-Roman era on the place there existed a lively commercial and maritime centre, called Truentum, which disappeared in the period of the barbarians' invasions following the fall of the Roman Empire (476 A.D.). It was then reconstructed after the VIII century, and the name appears for the first time in the X century. Colonnella was for a long time under the rule of Ascoli, and later of the Rosales family. And on May 28, 1877, Abramo DiMizio was born in Colonnella. He grew
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