This Saturday at 10:30 a.m. on Place Garibaldi in front of his statue, a delegation will pay tribute to Pépin Garibaldi. The flags present will be those of the Republic of Nissa, the Federal Occitan Republic, and the European Union.
Our hero of the Two Worlds was born in a house near the port of Nice on July 4, 1807.
He did not want Nice to become French. In September 1870, the people of Nice tore down the plaques of Place Napoléon to rename it “Garibaldi”.
Garibaldi, a fervent republican, was already in favor of a European federation and would have liked Nice to be its capital!