🚨 BERETTA: 500 years of Italian excellence One of Italy’s 🇮🇹 most extraordinary industrial stories has just reached an incredible milestone: 500 years!!! The Fabbrica d’Armi Pietro Beretta, one of the oldest industrial companies in the world still in operation, was born in Gardone Val Trompia, near Brescia A valley with a centuries-old tradition of mining and metalworking dating back to Roman times, and of gunsmithing since the Renaissance Its headquarters are still there today The official story begins on October 3, 1526, when the Republic of Venice paid 296 ducats to Bartolomeo Beretta for 185 arquebus barrels That document is considered the first certain record of the Beretta family’s firearms business Beretta did not begin as a giant company It started as a master gunsmith’s workshop and remained in the same family for around 15 generations, evolving from arquebus barrels to modern pistols, hunting and sporting firearms, products for law enforcement and military forces, international exports and eventually the wider Beretta Holding group That is what makes its story extraordinary: it is not simply an old company carrying an old name It is the same family industrial lineage, rooted in the same territory, continuously adapting for five centuries Yesterday, September 18, 2026, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni traveled to Gardone Val Trompia for the 500th-anniversary celebrations She visited the factory, inaugurated a new hall, took selfies with the public and watched the spectacular flyover by the Frecce Tricolori Meloni highlighted Beretta’s connection to its territory, Made in Italy and the security of Italy’s law enforcement and armed forces Five centuries Fifteen generations One family One territory One extraordinary Italian story Bravo 🇮🇹