Description
The Museum of the Risorgimento and the Contemporary Age is in the Caffè Pedrocchi building, next to the rooms of the piano nobile, in central Padua: a century and a half of Paduan and Italian history, from the fall of the Republic of Venice in 1797 to the Constitution of 1948.
Among documents, weapons, medals and images, the highlights are a Garibaldian red shirt, a copy of the "Obbedisco" ("I obey") telegram, which reached the General Command stationed in Padua in 1866, and the tricolor flag that the bersaglieri landed from the destroyer Audace raised in Trieste on November 3, 1918.
One room screens period newsreels, including Mussolini's visit to Padua in 1938.
The location has a precise meaning. On February 8, 1848, a student was wounded by Austrian soldiers right inside the Pedrocchi, and that revolt helped spark the uprisings of 1848: the University of Padua's anthem still remembers it.
Among documents, weapons, medals and images, the highlights are a Garibaldian red shirt, a copy of the "Obbedisco" ("I obey") telegram, which reached the General Command stationed in Padua in 1866, and the tricolor flag that the bersaglieri landed from the destroyer Audace raised in Trieste on November 3, 1918.
One room screens period newsreels, including Mussolini's visit to Padua in 1938.
The location has a precise meaning. On February 8, 1848, a student was wounded by Austrian soldiers right inside the Pedrocchi, and that revolt helped spark the uprisings of 1848: the University of Padua's anthem still remembers it.