Monumental art – How Giuseppe Garibaldi came to Bucharest

A bust of General Giuseppe Garibaldi dominates the park in front of the former Floreasca Cinemascope and, when unveiled just over six decades ago, the street nearby was also given the same name.

In 1961, officials from Sicily donated the work representing Garibaldi, signed by the sculptor E. Pandolfini, to the People’s Council of the Capital.
At the same time, a bust of Nicolae Balcescu was unveiled in Palermo. They were honoured for their humanism and as two fighters for the independence and freedom of their countries.

Giuseppe Garibaldi, a republican general, contributed to the unification of Italy in the mid-1800s by conquering Sicily and the Kingdom of Naples.
His bust in Bucharest bears the inscription ‘Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882 – Fighter for the unification of Italy’.

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