Piazza Garibaldi

Fun Facts:

• Lookout from which you can see the whole city of Rome (it's a dome city)

• To the:
• East=mountains
• North=St. Peter's
• South=Naples
• West=Mediterranean
• Pine Trees
• "Umbrella pines," symbol of Rome
• Giant bronze pine cone in the old St. Peter's
• Image of renewal (a pine cone opens up in heat-->forest is renewed)
• Rome has always been about renewal
• the new Troy
• renewed with Christianity
• Pine cone on top of the dome of the Boston state house recalls the US's classical roots

• Since 1848, everyday at noon, Italian soldiers fire a cannon
• Statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi (see first picture)
• "Father of Modern Italy"
• Inscription reads "Placed here 2,660"-->2,660 years since the founding of Rome, not A.D.
• Fasces
• Symbol of justice and political unity
• Twigs break easily, but many twigs bundled together are strong
• Busts around the piazza are of Garibaldi's men, Italian patriots
• Piazza Garibaldi is on Janiculum hill
• Statue of Righetto
• Symbol of boys who died in defense of Italy
• Located here because Piazza Garibaldi (or near it) is a park for children