Museo civico Casa natale di don Giovanni Verità
Civic museum in the 19th-century house of the priest and patriot don Giovanni Verità, with sections on the Risorgimento and the Resistance.
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About the museum
The museum is housed in the 19th-century birthplace of don Giovanni Verità (1807–1885), a priest and patriot of the Italian Risorgimento. The building retains the intact structure of a small middle-class 19th-century house. In 1932 the Comune di Modigliana bought it to prevent its demolition, and the same year the property was declared a national monument and converted into a civic museum dedicated to the priest and to local history.
The house is historically significant because in August 1849 don Verità gave shelter to Giuseppe Garibaldi, who was fleeing along the route known as the “trafila garibaldina”.
On the ground floor is the Risorgimento section, with weapons, letters, documents and relics, and the priest's original bedroom where Garibaldi stayed. There are also works by the Macchiaioli painter Silvestro Lega, a native of Modigliana. On the upper floor, in the rooms of the former library, a permanent documentary and photographic exhibition on the Resistance has been set up.
Highlights
- Room where Giuseppe Garibaldi took refuge in 1849
- Relics, weapons and letters of the Risorgimento
- Paintings by Silvestro Lega
- Section on the Resistance
- Operated by
- Comune di Modigliana
- Visitors per year
- approx. 2,500
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