Expiatory Chapel of Monza
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Funeral monument to King Umberto I who was assassinated here on 29 July 1900 while he was attending the rehearsal of gymnasts from Forti and Liberi.
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Son and successor of the first king of Italy, Umberto I supported a colonialist policy and favored the repression of nascent popular movements. Of authoritarian tendencies, he died the victim of an attack carried out by Gaetano Bresci, an anarchist who shot him to avenge the demonstrators killed by the army in Milan in 1898, during the protest against the increase in the price of bread.treccani.it/enciclopedia/umberto-i-re-d-italia_%28Enciclopedia-dei-ragazzi%29
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