One hundred and fifty years ago, with the entry of the Bersaglieri through the breach of Porta Pia, Rome became Italian.
Today the Undersecretary of Defense Angelo Tofalo and the mayor, Virginia Raggi, accompanied by the representative of the Lazio Region, the Chief of Defense Staff, General Enzo Vecciarelli and the Army Chief of Staff, General Salvatore Farina, deposed a crown laurel in memory of the fallen at the commemorative plaque of the battle of 1870, along the Aurelian walls.
A picket armed with Bersaglieri, the body of the Army protagonist of the capture of Rome, paid the honors to the authorities by wearing the historical uniform supplied to the troops of the time.
In commemoration of the anniversary, four Italian stamps were issued, collected in a special sheet.
The stamps are all valid for priority mail for Italy up to 100 grams in weight (2.80 euros).
On the right side of the leaflet the reproduction of the painting "The breach of Porta Pia" by Carel Max Quaedvlieg (Apolloni Collection);
it is a work of a nineteenth-century Dutch painter, also known for his views of Rome and its surroundings (he died in Rome in 1874).
On the left side of the leaflet, the four stamps are inserted vertically which reproduce: - against the background of the Italian tricolor, the copy kept in the Historical Museum of the Bersaglieri of the monument to the Bersagliere of Publio Morbiducci exhibited in the square in front of Porta Pia; Pia; - the logo of the Gathering of the Bersaglieri in Rome; - the painting "I Bersaglieri" by Michele Cammarano, preserved in the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome.
The bulletin illustrating the issue was written by the National President of the National Bersaglieri Association, gen.
Ottavio Renzi.
