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One hundred and fifty years ago, with the entry of the Bersaglieri through the Porta Pia breach, Rome became Italian.
Today the Undersecretary of Defense Angelo Tofalo and the Mayor, Virginia Raggi, accompanied by the representative of the Lazio Region, the Chief of Defense Staff, General Enzo Vecciarelli and the Army Chief of Staff, General Salvatore Farina, deposed a laurel wreath in memory of the fallen on the plaque commemorating the battle of 1870, along the Aurelian walls.
A picket armed with Bersaglieri, the main Army corps of the taking of Rome, honored the authorities by wearing the historical uniform provided to the troops of the time.
In commemoration of the anniversary, four Italian stamps were issued, collected on a special sheet. The stamps are all valid for priority mail for Italy up to 100 grams in weight (2.80 euros). To the right of the brochure, the reproduction of the painting “The gap at Porta Pia” by Carel Max Quaedvlieg (Apolloni Collection); It is a work by a 19th century Dutch painter, also known for his views of Rome and its surroundings (he died in Rome in 1874). On the left side of the brochure, instead, the four stamps are inserted vertically that reproduce: – on the background of the Italian tricolor, the copy preserved in the Historical Museum of the Bersaglieri of the monument to the Bersagliere by Publio Morbiducci exhibited in the square in front to Porta Pia; – the internal façade of Porta Pia; – the logo of the Meeting of the Bersaglieri in Rome; – the painting “I Bersaglieri” by Michele Cammarano, kept in the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome. The bulletin illustrating the problem was written by the national president of the National Association of Bersaglieri, gen. Ottavio Renzi.
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