After a restoration and enhancement project, the monumental complex of Porta San Pancrazio was reopened in 2011 and the Museum of the Roman Republic and Garibaldi’s Memory was inaugurated. Using historical documents, works of art and multimedia and didactic materials, it retraces history, places, and personalities of this fundamental era in the history of this city.
Busts, paintings, engravings and Garibaldian mementos, as well as models and a rich multimedia apparatus, guide the visitor to discover the places, the days and the main protagonists of the events of those years of great political ferment.
Room after room, it is possible to reconstruct the evolution of the events that led from the European uprisings of 1848, passing through the liberal phase of Pius IX, to the pontiff’s flight to Gaeta and the proclamation of the Roman Republic, up to its dramatic epilogue in July 1849, at the end of the extremely harsh clashes that saw the Roman troops oppose the forces of the French army rushing to the pope’s aid.
The last rooms are especially dedicated to some of the main protagonists who lost their lives during the defence of the Roman Republic and to the Constitution of the Roman Republic, a text of extraordinary modernity issued on the Capitoline Hill when the French troops had already entered the city.
