133rd Littorio Armoured Division
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The 133rd "Littorio" Armoured Division was formed in Parma at the end of 1937 by merging the 1st "Celere" Division into the existing Littorio infantry division. Littorio was the third Italian armoured division formed after Centauro and Ariete.
The original Littorio Infantry Division had fought in the Spanish Civil War as a unit of regular army “volunteers.” On its return to Italy it was converted to an armoured division. Its name comes from “lictor”, the name of those who carried the fasces, the rod-and-axes symbol adopted by Mussolini from ancient Rome.
