Description of the attraction
The Museum of the Risorgimento and the Resistance Movement is closely linked to the traditions, culture and social life of Vicenza and the entire province. It is located in Villa Guiccioli, on the hill of Ambellikopoli, where the heroic resistance movement was born in 1848. It was from here that the inhabitants of Vicenza and other settlements of the province defended their city. The museum's collections are incredibly diverse and interesting. Its core consists of printed materials, newspapers, magazines, manuscripts, portraits of historical figures, diaries of participants in events, proclamations, decrees, coins, medals, military maps, weapons, bayonets, sabers, flags and military artifacts. The collection of documents and personal belongings provides an interesting look at local, national and, in some cases, European historical events from Napoleon's first Italian campaign in 1796 to the end of World War II. This is the story of that one and a half century period that changed the political, social, economic life of Italy and all of Europe.
Undoubtedly, one of the most important collections of the museum is the collection of Gabriele Fantoni, which he handed over to Vicenza in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His collection is dedicated to the history of the Risorgimento, the movement for the unification of Italy, especially its Vicenta branch, from the late 18th century to the end of the 19th century. Here you can see the announcements, proclamations and other materials that were issued by the Venetian government in the middle of the 19th century. Noteworthy are the autographs and personal belongings of those who defended Venice and Vicenza during the Austrian siege. It is also worth getting acquainted with the collection of patriotic hymns, poems and songs written by unknown authors, and satire and humorous publications that shed new light on the morale of the people of that time. The collection of printed materials contains over 4 thousand pamphlets, published in the second half of the 19th century.
