Christmas at the Campidoglio is lit up with a tree dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Constitution, which became effective on 1 January 1948.
Designed by the genius of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Piazza del Campidoglio, home to the Capitoline Museums and Palazzo Senatorio, which houses the offices of the Mayor of Rome, hosts the tree honouring the principles of the Constitutional Chart.
Approximately ten metres high, it is designed to be sustainable: the thirty thousand LEDs that illuminate the tree are in fact made from 100% recyclable materials. The Constitution Tree is also decorated with the coat of arms of the Republic on the tip, the fundamental rights on the festoons, and a sentence by Piero Calamandrei, one of the creators of the Republican Constitution, is placed at the base.
The fascinating installation is accompanied by a large interactive book that, thanks to a QRcode to be framed, introduces you to the world of the Constitution through audio and video broadcasts of Capitoline councillors and Roman school students who took part in the 'Tour of the Constitution' that stopped in all 15 municipalities of Rome to introduce the youngest to the fundamental articles of our Constitution.
The lighting, which took place in the presence of the President of the Capitoline Assembly, Svetlana Celli, who promoted the initiative, the Mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, the councillors and aldermen of Rome, was accompanied by a performance by the Band of the Local Police Corps of Roma Capitale and presented by Gianluca Meola, Claudia Gerini, and Francesca Manzini.
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