''The fight to reclaim holy ground from Steve Bannon'' By Giada Zampan

'' After masterminding Donald Trump’s success, Steve Bannon turned his attention to building a far-right political movement in Europe. But a group of activists in a tiny village outside Rome are hoping to disrupt that effort.
Around 200 people marched Saturday in Collepardo, an hour and a half from the Italian capital, to protest Bannon’s plans to create a training school for nationalists in the Trisulti Charterhouse, a former Carthusian monastery.

Trump’s former adviser last year announced his intentions to turn the 800-year-old medieval abbey — previously inhabited by monks and a colony of feral cats — into an academy for the next wave of populist politicians.
Protesters marched toward the monastery on Saturday displaying banners that read “Stop Bannon, Free Europe,” and “Trisulti, European land.” The anti-Bannon activists argue the institution, founded in 1204, is a true “European outpost” that embodies “ideas that are inclusive and do not shut out the world.”..
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