Culture

Rome delves into its past to celebrate 150 years as capital of Italy

Rome, May 4 (EFE) .- (Camera: Álvaro Padilla) Rome delves into its past to celebrate its 150 years as the capital of Italy, through an exhibition inaugurated on Tuesday that reviews that time in which the city changed forever after being snatched from the millennial power of the popes.FOOTAGE OF THE BRASCHI PALACE, ROME MUSEUM, AND THE VISIT TO THE MAYOR'S EXHIBITION, VIRGINIA RAGGI.SOUNDBITES IN ITALIAN BY MARIA VITTORIA MARINI CLARELLI, SUPERINTENDENT OF THE CAPITOLINE MUSEUMS AND CULTURAL ASSETS.TRANSLATION:1- "On September 20, 1870, the Italian army enters Rome, a consultation is held with the vast majority in favor of Rome as the capital of Italy, all this happens in a plebiscitary manner and in Rome, the tricolor flag begins to circulate".2- "The greatest concern of the intellectuals was that Rome would lose its universality, that it would become a capital like others, that it would not be republican, the place where men of culture feel at home."3- "We imagine a character who was born around 1850, who could participate perfectly in the Breccia (Opening or gap) di Porta Pia directly and then goes through this period of the importance of the city, sees the birth of places of entertainment that previously did not exist, sees the theater, exhibition venues, national gallery of modern art, cinemas are born, and then modernization begins, electricity, trams, these democratic vehicles... "