(ANSA) - TURIN, 12 MAR - The MemorialCavour in Santena (Turin) opens on Wednesday 17 March, the day on which the 160th anniversary of the unification of Italy is celebrated.
Due to the health emergency, the inauguration was postponed, Covid allowing, to 6 June, on the 160th anniversary of the Count's death, but the ribbon will be cut anyway.
The leaders of the Cavour Foundation, the prefect and the mayor of Santena will be present.
The ceremony will be available on the Foundation's Youtube channel.
"It is a very beautiful boutique museum, with an educational function. It is the only one in Italy dedicated to Cavour. We have rebuilt, with an important restoration, one of the most ancient residences in history, where you can admire the works of the entire life of the great statesman. Cavour is one of the fathers of the country, his speeches are very current also for the attention to Europe, to the point that the president of the Council, Mario Draghi, mentioned him several times during the speech to the Senate ", underlines Marco Boglione, president of the Foundation Cavour.
"For us it is essential to be able to say that the museum is open. It is the completion of a long journey that began ten years ago, even if the actual works were completed in three years.
Then the times got longer due to Covid.
It is a very suggestive path that opens with the voice of Cavour's cousin William de La Rive, his first biographer.
There are three floors to visit.
We will evaluate based on the restrictions linked to the health emergency whether to offer pills of the path on the web ", says Marco Fasano, director of the Cavour Foundation.
" We have no sabers and particular objects, but there is the room where Cavour died and many objects that belonged to him, such as the travel necessity, the Sevres porcelain cup given to Napoleon III on the occasion of the Congress of Paris, the collection of the Santissima Annunziata donated by Vittorio Emanuele II ". (ANSA).