📜🛩🥇5 May 1896. Venetian highly praised and decorated military officer, aviator, war hero Pier Luigi Penzo was born in #Malamocco island in Venice #Lido.
Penzo has been 1 of the most important Italian pilots in World War I, and a legendary one all over Europe because he survived the shooting down of his airplane in former Jugoslavia and imprisonment by the Austrian troops.
After the war he became friend with Italian poet and writer Gabriele D'Annunzio and officer and politician Italo Balbo, who both admired and praised him.
Unfortunately Penzo died on 29 September 1928 in his airplaine crash due to bad weather, while on a mission in France. His body was found many days later, transported to Venice with all highest honours and buried in the Cemetery of #SanMichele.
In the pictures above☝️, Pier Luigi Penzo photo on the first page of the Venice newspaper Il Gazzettino, the commemorative statue at the #Giardini, and the Venice Football Stadium which was (still today is) entitled to Penzo.
#VeniceHistory #5May
Penzo has been 1 of the most important Italian pilots in World War I, and a legendary one all over Europe because he survived the shooting down of his airplane in former Jugoslavia and imprisonment by the Austrian troops.
After the war he became friend with Italian poet and writer Gabriele D'Annunzio and officer and politician Italo Balbo, who both admired and praised him.
Unfortunately Penzo died on 29 September 1928 in his airplaine crash due to bad weather, while on a mission in France. His body was found many days later, transported to Venice with all highest honours and buried in the Cemetery of #SanMichele.
In the pictures above☝️, Pier Luigi Penzo photo on the first page of the Venice newspaper Il Gazzettino, the commemorative statue at the #Giardini, and the Venice Football Stadium which was (still today is) entitled to Penzo.
#VeniceHistory #5May
📜👨🔬11 November 1788. Pietro Paleòcapa, an Italian scientist, engineer and later politician was born in Nese, Alzano Lombardo (BG), at the time under Venice domination. His family was of Greek origins and they decided to emigrate and live in Venice territory.
In 1840 #Paleocapa became a general manager in Venice, and oversaw the works on the rivers Brenta, Bacchiglione, Adige, Tartaro-Canalbianco-Po di Levante, the drainage of several marshy areas near #Verona and the construction of a dam in #Malamocco, Venice.
He was a patriot and believed in #Italy unification, and he played an important role in the negotiation for the 👉 annexation of Venice to the then Kingdom.
The first monument statue 📸☝️we all meet when entering Venice historical centre is dedicated to him: it was placed inside the Papadopoli Gardens, built and commissioned by the Papadopoli family in the XIX century, still today the first and largest green area🌳 we see in #SantaCroce district.
Do you remember this place?
#VeniceHistory #11November
In 1840 #Paleocapa became a general manager in Venice, and oversaw the works on the rivers Brenta, Bacchiglione, Adige, Tartaro-Canalbianco-Po di Levante, the drainage of several marshy areas near #Verona and the construction of a dam in #Malamocco, Venice.
He was a patriot and believed in #Italy unification, and he played an important role in the negotiation for the 👉 annexation of Venice to the then Kingdom.
The first monument statue 📸☝️we all meet when entering Venice historical centre is dedicated to him: it was placed inside the Papadopoli Gardens, built and commissioned by the Papadopoli family in the XIX century, still today the first and largest green area🌳 we see in #SantaCroce district.
Do you remember this place?
#VeniceHistory #11November