Il Vittoriale degli Italiani. A day in Gardone Riviera, Lombardy, Italy

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The Italian Vittoriale is a monumental cittadenna that extends for about nine acres. On the announcement of the staged between 1921 and 1938 in collaboration with the architect Gian Carlo Maroni to whom he entrusted the task of finishing "his memories" in a case of "stone" reserving the decorations. Surrounded with walls featuring a complex of buildings to which it reaches through the streets and squares. Immediately after the double-arched entrance overlooking Lake Garda, is the great seat amphitheater is a prestigious area theater season, which includes a new space for temporary exhibitions themed. Two squares, and square the Esedra coducono Dalmatians: the Priory, exceptional testimony of the personality, sensitivity, tastes D'Annunzio, there are thousands and thousands of collected oggertti aetistici, wooden statues, ceramics, glass, silver, rugs, bookshelves custid that a library with about 30000 volumes, some of them ancient and rare, as well as memorabilia reminiscent of Eriocheir moments of life of the poet. The gardens of the Priory restored with support European union and open to the public since 1993 were the first to be made and are important for a few relics and works of art, including: The Boulders del Grappa and other mountains of War; the Arengo, dedicated to the rites of the oath, the ceremonies and meetings, where they are located, in a grove of magnoglie, 17 columns which commemorate the victories of the Great War. Walking along the paths of the garden of lemon and you get to the orchard where there is the bronze canephorae Napoleone Martinuzzi, a work of great merit. The bow of the ship Puglia, donated by the Navy in 1925, is set on a hill and enriched by a winged Victory, by the sculptor Renato Brozzi. Since June 2002, houses the Museum of the Border where the original furnishings are on display in the Royal ship Puglia and 10 models of warships belonging to the private collection of HRH Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of Aosta. On the highest hill in the Mausoleum, burial of D'Annunzio and the legionnaires piumani. Shrines, and tree-lined avenues make Vittoriale an outdoor museum of considerable size