On of the two statues of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bersaglieri" class="mw-redirect" title="Bersaglieri">bersaglieri</a>, flanking the main entrance to "<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Casa_Bettoni" class="mw-redirect" title="Casa Bettoni">Casa Bettoni</a>" palace. This curious eclectic-style  building (projected by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Palazzi" class="mw-redirect" title="Giuseppe Palazzi">Giuseppe Palazzi</a> in 1859, completed in 1865), along <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Corso_di_Porta_Romana_in_Milan" class="mw-redirect" title="Corso di Porta Romana in Milan">Corso di Porta Romana in Milan</a>, Italy, with its bizarre "patriottic" statues and reliefs stands as a document of the high spirit of the Milanese bourgeoisie immediately after the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Unification_of_Italy" class="mw-redirect" title="Unification of Italy">Unification of Italy</a> in 1860. Picture by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:G.dallorto" title="User:G.dallorto">Giovanni Dall'Orto</a>, May 5 2007.
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Self-published work by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:G.dallorto" title="User:G.dallorto">G.dallorto</a>