Monday, May 4, 2015

HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF CARABINIERI

MUSEO STORICO DELL'ARMA DEI CARABINIERI


Built in the late nineteenth century to be the Scuola Allievi Ufficiali dei Carabinieri (Carabinieri School for Officers)

Modified in 1937 by Scipione Tadolini to transform the entire building in a museum. Since 1925 the museum had been located only in some rooms of the building

Completely renovated in 1985

The Carabinieri Corps was established in 1814 and in the museum its story is narrated with documents, memorabilia, statues and about forty paintings including works by Gianni Vagnetti (1897/1956) and Guido Greganti (1897/1986) and sculptures by Augusto Rivalta (1837/1925) and Edoardo Rubino (1871/1954)

There also are commemorative medals, artistic parchments and historic flags
In Piazza Risorgimento, across from the museum there is the

 

Monumento al Carabiniere a Cavallo

Monument of a Carabiniere on a Horse

2003. Bronze reworking of a small group also in bronze of 1886 by Stanislao Grimaldi (1825/1903) kept in the museum

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