Risorgimento Hall of Palazzo Cordella... - Secret World

Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 35, 45011 Adria RO, Italia

by Cristina Bartolini

The Risorgimento Hall, housed in Palazzo Cordella, has been set up with the various testimonies of the Risorgimento period belonging to the Municipal Administration, mostly grouped in some thematic notice boards. The "showcase of posters" contains various documents, from the sentences issued in 1821 (the year of the first revolutionary uprisings) against Polesine patriots and other regions of Northern Italy to the plebiscite for accession to the Kingdom of Italy in 1866. Everything is embellished with two finely embroidered coats of arms of Adria, probably from the 18th century, representing the Castle, symbol of the city, which here takes a different form from the one currently in use. The "showcase of the uniforms" contains caps, jackets, corsets, medals and photos of some patriots of the Adriatic Sea together with some swords among which one bears the engraving of the Savoy coat of arms. The "weapons display case" contains, among other things, rifles of the Civic Guard dating from the 18th to the 19th century. The smaller display case contains relics (rosettes, sheaths, cloth, fragments of biscuits, etc.) and some human remains of the group of patriots led by the head of the Roman people Angelo Brunetti known as Ciceruacchio killed in Porto Tolle.