Here I'm by the monument dedicated to Pietro Micca.
Pietro Micca (March 6, 1677 - August 30, 1706)
was an Italian soldier who became a national hero
for his sacrifice in the defence of Torino (1706) against the French troops.

During the siege, a party of the besiegers had succeeded in penetrating
by surprise into the tunnels of the fortress on the night of August 29-30,
and would undoubtedly have captured it had not Micca,
a soldier in the engineers, fired a mine,
with the result that he and the attackers were blown into the air
and the rest of the force then driven back with heavy losses.

Micca's heroism has been the subject of poems, plays and romances.
But, according to Count Giuseppe Solaro della Margherita,
the commander of the Torino garrison at the time,
it was through a miscalculation of the pace of the fuse,
and not by deliberate intent, that he sacrificed his life.

The statue, you can see here, is in front of the museum,
devoted to the battle, and dedicated to Pietro Micca.





Please, visit also Bruna's galleries, clicking HERE