Tuesday, May 5, 2015

HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF INFANTRY

MUSEO STORICO DELLA FANTERIA


Housed in a 1903 building formerly barracks of the second regiment of the Grenadiers of Sardinia
The museum was established in 1948 but it was open to the public only in 1959

In 1990 it was renovated and divided into three areas (weapons, flags and uniforms) with THIRTY-FIVE ROOMS, FIVE GALLERIES, a LIBRARY and a HISTORICAL ARCHIVE

The exhibition includes firearms from the eighteenth century to the present day, halberds, crossbows, armor and edged weapons, as well as models of battles as those of Zama and Waterloo, sketches and original documents relating to colonial wars and the two world wars

Memorial with bronze group “Redeemer on the Cross holds two soldiers dying” by Edmondo Furlan
Statue “Soldier leaving” by Biagio Poidimani (1910/2001)

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