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"

CAMPO VERANO CEMETERY

CIMITERO MONUMENTALE DEL VERANO

Piazzale del Verano

1807/12 begun by Giuseppe Valadier (1762/1839)

Continued by Virginio Vespignani (1808/82) who also designed the great SQUARE PORTICO in 1880

It was enlarged until 1960

The name derives from the Verani family, an ancient Roman patrician family who used to own this area in the Republican period

ENTRANCE GATE

Statues 1874/78 "Meditation" and "Charity" by Francesco Fabj-Altini (1830/1906), "Hope" by Stefano Galletti (1832/1905) pupil of Pietro Tenerani and "Silence" by Giuseppe Blasetti (1826/1908)

Among the monuments:

"Painter Tommaso Minardi" 1876 by Luigi Fontana (1827/1908)

"General Giacomo Medici" 1884 by Giulio Monteverde (1837/1917)

"Erminia Fuà Fusinato" 1876 by Stefano Galletti

On the small hill known as PINCETTO

"Monument to the pontifical soldiers fallen during the Mentana battle against the Italian army" by Vincenzo Luccardi (1808/76)

"Monument to the navy soldiers of the Sebastiano Veniero submarine" 1930 by Publio Morbiducci (1889/1963)

"Monument to the Roman soldier fallen during the First World War in the years 1915/18" 1922/31 by Raffaele De Vico (1881/1969)

CHAPEL OF St. MARY OF MERCY

Built in 1859

"Purgatory's souls" by Tommaso Minardi (1787/1871)