The Italian Ice Cream Hero of Budapest: Francesco Tirelli’s Untold Story
Hey, history buffs and travel enthusiasts! If you’ve ever strolled down Budapest’s Rottenbiller Street, licking a cone of creamy gelato, you might’ve walked past a tale so wild it sounds like a movie script. Meet Francesco Tirelli—an Italian fencing master turned ice cream maestro who risked it all to save Jewish families during World War II, right here in Hungary’s capital. His life was a rollercoaster of bravado, botched scandals, and a bittersweet end, and it’s even been immortalized in …