La Maddalena, in Caprera the commemoration of the death of Garibaldi
The hero of two worlds celebrated on the island he chose to spend the last thirty years of his life
For one hundred and forty years in Caprera, in a more or less solemn and participatory way, the death of Giuseppe Garibaldi, the hero of two worlds, has been commemorated, which took place on June 2, 1882, on the island he had chosen to spend the last thirty years of his life and from which he left several times to achieve and complete the unification of Italy.
Since the year following his death, celebratory and commemorative moments took place in Caprera in the presence of family members and many Garibaldians and pilgrims who in the following years often arrived there by chartering entire ships; and this happened until the last 60s of the 20th century.
Even tomorrow, June 2, Garibaldi will be remembered both in the morning with the deposition of wreaths, in Piazza Garibaldi, in Piazza Comando and in Caprera at the tomb and in the afternoon, at 17:00, in the council hall, where a study meeting will be held title "The last Garibaldi, from the Vosges to Caprera".
The conference will be introduced by Annita Garibaldi Jallet which will be followed by speeches by Ester Capuzzo, of the La Sapienza University of Rome, who will give a report entitled "From the Vosges expedition to Caprera", and that of Gabriella Ciampi, former professor at the University of Tuscia, on "Garibaldi in Caprera since the 70s".
