MONUMENTO NAZIONALE AL MARINAIO D'ITALIA

The exhibition

The prints of the permanent exhibition displayed inside the Monument
The project model seen from above (Luigi Brunati and Amerigo Bartoli, 1932).
The project model in front view: the entrance surmounted by the cross, the two side sculptures and the pool of water (Luigi Brunati and Amerigo Bartoli, 1932).
Preparing the site: the rails for carrying materials; in the background, a ship in the harbour.
The site being set up; in the background, a ship entering the harbour and the Montedison warehouse.
The first structures emerge from the excavation.
Engineer Federico Simoncini on the floor slab under construction, among the reinforcement bars.
Preparing one of the floor slabs: the mesh of reinforcement bars ready for the concrete pour.
The excavation and preparation of the foundations, with the timber formwork and the site rails.
Preparing the foundations and the base: workers on the formwork.
Tying the reinforcement bars of the foundations.
Engineers and architects examine a crate delivered to the site.
12 May 1933: Achille Starace, secretary of the National Fascist Party and special commissioner of the Naval League, visits the site.
The site seen from the excavation front; below, the family of engineer Federico Simoncini.
View of the city of Brindisi from the site.
The family of engineer Federico Simoncini visiting the site.
The site in full activity, among heaps of stone and formwork timber.
The tower of timber formwork as the structure rises.
The structure rising; in the background, the skyline of the city.
The workers, gathered at the base of the building, listen to a radio announcement.
The interior of the reinforced-concrete structure, with timber service walkways.
Construction under way; on the right Luigi Brunati, on the left Amerigo Bartoli, authors of the design.
The rising structure wrapped in scaffolding.
The tower rising among formwork and scaffolding.
Engineer Federico Simoncini on the top of the building; in the background, the harbour with ships at anchor.
Engineer Federico Simoncini on the rising structure; behind him, the city beyond the harbour.
The liner Neptunia enters the harbour of Brindisi.
13 May 1933: the arrival of the Neptunia, greeted by the crowd; on the left, the rising building site.
A ship in the harbour of Brindisi; in the background, the Montedison warehouse.
A ship moored in the harbour of Brindisi, in front of the waterfront.
May 1933: the tower almost complete, with scaffolding still at the top; the terraces are already defined.
4 November 1933, inauguration day: the parade through the streets of the city.
4 November 1933: the authorities on the steps on inauguration day.
4 November 1933: the royal stand during the inauguration ceremony.
4 November 1933: the crowd on the terraces and along the quay, seen from the sea.
4 November 1933: Achille Starace's speech before the royal stand.
4 November 1933: King Victor Emmanuel III speaks with the designers and the heads of the building firm.
4 November 1933: King Victor Emmanuel III meets a veteran of the Battle of Lissa (1866).
4 November 1933: King Victor Emmanuel III at the end of his visit.
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The project model seen from above (Luigi Brunati and Amerigo Bartoli, 1932).

Simoncini Family Collection and Private Collection · Prints by the Print Office of the Brindisi Navy Command