Stanza delle Reliquie, La Prioria, Vittoriale

Stanza delle Reliquie, or Hall of Relics, with a collection of symbols and objects from different religions, in La Prioria, home of Gabriele D'Annunzio, 1863-1938, Italian writer, soldier and fascist, at Vittoriale degli italiani, or The Shrine of Italian Victories, his estate and museums at Gardone Riviera, Lake Garda, Brescia, Lombardy, Italy. On the altar is the broken steering wheel of Sir Henry Segrave's motorboat which crashed in 1930 during an attempt at a speed record at Lake Windermere in England. The house was originally the Villa Cargnacco, which was rebuilt by Gian Carlo Maroni from 1922 and developed until 1955. 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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13442553

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45174795

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4803px x 4724px (7.7MB)

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Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans

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Photograph by Manuel Cohen