Arengo, Vittoriale degli italiani, Gardone Riviera

The Arengo, a sacred garden space with stone seats and 27 stone columns celebrating the victories of World War One and Fiume, built 1923-24, in a magnolia grove beneath Apollinoa's Veranda, in the grounds of Vittoriale degli italiani, or The Shrine of Italian Victories, the home, estate and museums of Gabriele D'Annunzio, 1863-1938, Italian writer, soldier and fascist, at Gardone Riviera, Lake Garda, Brescia, Lombardy, Italy. The stone columns date to the 13-14th and 17th centuries and some are topped with bullets donated by General Armando Diaz. The Commandera's throne is flanked by 2 sphinxes and Napoleone Martinuzzia's winged Victory. The estate consists of the Prioria, where d'Annunzio lived 1922-38, an amphitheatre, the protected cruiser Puglia, the MAS vessel used by D'Annunzio in 1918 and a mausoleum. It is part of the Grandi Giardini Italiani. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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13442521

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45174120

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Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans

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Photograph by Manuel Cohen