CAVOUR BRIDGE

PONTE CAVOUR

Via Vittoria Colonna/Piazza del Porto di Ripetta

1896/1901 from the design of the Milanese Angelo Vescovali (1826/95) head of the municipal hydraulic office who, besides this, designed four other bridges in the center of Rome (Garibaldi, Umberto I, Regina Margherita and Palatino)

To build it was unfortunately necessary to destroy the beautiful Port of Ripetta by Alessandro Specchi

MONUMENT TO CAMILLO BENSO COUNT OF CAVOUR

MONUMENTO A CAMILLO BENSO CONTE DI CAVOUR

Piazza Cavour

1885/95 Stefano Galletti (1832/1905) pupil of Pietro Tenerani

Platform of granite, base of bardiglio marble and bronze statues

In the base there are four bronze groups: west side "Thought", east side "Action", north side "Force" with a lion protecting the plebiscitary voting polls and south side "Italy sitting next to Rome"

Reliefs on two sides of the pedestal to the east, behind the Action, "Weapons of the House of Savoy from different periods", in the west, behind the Thought, "Symbols of science, technology, geographical discoveries, political and philosophical thought"