Statue of Charles III of Bourbon

LOCATION:
Piazza Cavallotti in front of the Chamber of Commerce
DATING;
1860
DESCRIPTION:
The current statue, a copy of a previous statue from 1757 which was destroyed, was sculpted in Rome by Saro Zagari, a pupil of Tenerani from Messina. It was placed in the Leone district in 1860, later it was kept in the Peloritan Civic Museum and later in the Mellinghof spinning mill transformed into the National Museum. In 1970 the statue was placed on its original base in Piazza Cavallotti.

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