Faro del Gianicolo
Historic site · Trastevere, Italy
The lighthouse on the Janiculum, also called the Faro di Roma and the Faro degli italiani d'Argentina.
History
Roma Capitale records it as a gift to the city from the Italians of Argentina, made for the fiftieth anniversary of Italian unity and to commemorate Rome as capital, dated 19 September 1911, and records that it was restored in 2011 for the 150th anniversary of unification along with the monuments to Giuseppe and Anita Garibaldi, the eighty-four busts of the Garibaldian heroes and the four stelae to the fighters of the Roman Republic.
Visit
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