The use of marking time with a cannon shot was introduced by Pope Pius IX on 1 December 1847 as a signal of the official one, rather than the sound of church bells uncoordinated towns.
The tradition continued with the Unification of Italy. The cannon shot by August 1903 from his first position in Castel S. Angelo, where he was moved on the slopes of Monte Mario, only to be finally transferred to the Gianicolo, exactly 24 January 1904.
During the 2nd World War, the tradition was interrupted by the war. The
April 21, 1959, on the occasion of the 2712th anniversary of the founding of Rome, the cannon shots to mark the "noon" for the citizens of Rome.
There is no information on the type of gun in use until August 1904. Since that date was used a 75 mm field guns., Used by artillery of the Kingdom of Italy to open the breach of Porta Pia.
was then used a 149/13 howitzer whose gun, war booty of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the 1915-18 war, was mounted on a gun carriage Italian. The latter piece, now decrepit, on 1 February 1991 he fired his last shot.
currently is using a howitzer, result of an assemblage of the gun mount up from 105/22 to 88/27 employees during the 2nd World War.
The team of service to the piece, initially supplied from the 8th of CERIMANT Rome, is always made available by the Air Force.
Theatre in 1849 short of the heroic defense of the Roman Republic against the French called by Pius IX in Rome resume,: already in 1879, in front of San Pietro in Montorio was built a monument to the fallen in the cause of Italian Roma " ; now disappeared. At the highest point of the hill were then placed the statues of Garibaldi (by Emilio Gallori opened in 1895) and Anita (the work of Mario Rutelli, 1932; pedestal were placed in the ashes of her). The slope below the fountain of Paul V and on the way down to the Gianicolo that St. Peter was placed marble a myriad of talking heads, portraits of famous partisans, Thousand fighters with whom he had resisted for weeks, the French troops far more ; numerous and better armed.
Where could rise a monument to Garibaldi, if not on the Gianicolo, the hill that in 1849 the Garibaldi fought valiantly against the French to defend the Roman Republic!? A strategic position has always been located on the right bank of the Tiber, covered with sacred groves, not included among the seven hills famous, was the door that led into Rome from the Etruscan territory, this explains its name derived from Janus, the protector of the inputs. Gianicolo became after the unification of Italy and a large public park with statues and talking heads a sort of memorial to the Risorgimento, so that the gun under the lookout site where is the statue of Garibaldi, is connected to all the heroic Garibaldi resistance, although the use of mark noon with a cannon shot was introduced by Pope Pius IX on December 1, 1847, Castel Sant'Angelo, with the aim of having a single signal of the official, rather than the sound of the bells of uncoordinated churches in the city, from there the cannon was moved in 1904 on the Gianicolo, the symbol of a Rome secular and republican.
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