The monument stands at the very top of the hill where the battle took place, a few kilometers from the town center of Calatafimi, and has the shape of an obelisk. It contains an ossuary where the remains of the fallen—Garibaldini, picciotti, and Bourbon soldiers—are kept, along with other relics. The initial appeal for the construction of a monument to collect the remains of the fallen and commemorate the Battle of Calatafimi on May 15, 1860, was launched on September 9 of the same year by a committee of local residents. It was designed in 1885 by Ernesto Basile, but it was only on May 15, 1892, that Mayor Salvatore Cabasino, in the presence of General Paolo D'Oncieu de la Bâtie, representative of King Umberto I, could inaugurate the Pianto Romano memorial.The Battle of Calatafimi was the first battle of the Expedition of the Thousand. It was fought on May 15, 1860, in a location known in contemporary publications as Pianto dei Romani, a short distance from the town of Calatafimi, between the Garibaldini, supported by Sicilian volunteers, and about 3,000 soldiers of the Army of the Two Sicilies under the command of General Francesco Landi.

Pianto Romano

The theatre of Segesta

the temple of segesta

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