Caprera 2 June – 4 July. From 1882 until the present day, a journey in memory of the Risorgimento.

Giuseppe Garibaldi, an undisputed central figure of that period, was born in Nice on 4 July, 1807, and died in Caprera on 2 June, 1882, at the age of 75.

These two occurrences, celebrated for more than a century, were particularly felt after 1882 when, on the emotional wave of recent events, a laic mass phenomenon elected Caprera as a place for worship for thousands of people from every part of Italy. These were actual patriotic processions led on the island with the support of the Ministry of the Navy that, with most of its fleet, provided passage from the Peninsula. Testimony of that time, especially between the twenties and fifties, was the incredible number of images and video footage collection form the newsreels, filmed at the time by the Istituto Luce.

Part of these short films will be shown at the Memoriale Giuseppe Garibaldi.

On the same day, the Compendio Garibaldino will inaugurate an exhibition dedicated to the fifth National Pilgrimage to Caprera in 4 July 1907, one hundred years from the birth of Giuseppe Garibaldi when, a delegation of Legionnaires of Montevideo donated a commemorative plaque for the Hero’s grave appointing a representative of Garibaldi’s circle in Montevideo, to go to the island to personally take the homage and the photo of the representative committee in Uruguay. The photo, currently kept in the photographic archive of the Compendio Garibaldino, tells the story of the delivery of  the plaque that depicts the bas-relief of a victorious small army during the memorable battle of San Antonio del Salto in Uruguay. In a way, the battle involving the Italian Legion of Montevideo represents the beginning of Garibaldi’s long era that, from the far South America, arrived in Italy travelling through history until the culmination of the national unification.

The historical photo of Garibaldi’s followers and the bronze plaque from 1907 will be exhibited in the first room of the house/museum.