Museo della Repubblica Romana e della memoria garibaldina

During the dramatic events of the spring and early summer of 1849, when the French troops militarily attacked the Roman Republic by placing the city under siege for a month, Porta San Pancrazio played a major role in the desperate defense of Rome headed by Giuseppe Garibaldi. In memory of the heroic resistance, for which they sacrificed their lives men like Emilio Dandolo, Luciano Manara, Goffredo Mameli, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Italian unification, the Porta San Pancrazio become home to a museum dedicated to the Republic Roman in 1849 and Garibaldi's tradition. strongly evocative place of the facts, the door is also a privileged point of reading of the historical monuments of the Janiculum that of the tough battle to retain large memory monumental level today. The current gate S. Pancrazio, located on the height of the Janiculum in the perimeter of urbaniane or gianicolensi walls, was built in 1854-57 by architect Virginio Vespignani on the ruins of the gate built by Marcantonio de Rossi in 1648 and partially destroyed during the war events of 1849. in turn, the seventeenth-century door had replaced the old Aurelia door opening in the enclosure of the Aurelian walls slightly behind than today. The April 19, 1951 the City Council gave the local National Association Veterans and Veterans Garibaldi for the construction of the museum. At the same time it was initiated the ordering of materials and documentation for the establishment of the Museum which was opened to the public in 1976 with two sections: the first concerning the History Garibaldi's Risorgimento and the second story and the story of the Italian Division partisan Garibaldi.