The Italian Republic turns 70. It does so on Thursday 2 June and the anniversary will be celebrated by President Sergio Mattarella, who for the occasion has inaugurated a photographic exhibition at the Quirinale created thanks to the historical archive of Ansa. The exhibition is called "June 2, 1946" and tells the origin of the seventy years of republican history photographed and described day by day by the reporters of the news agency. The exhibition is divided into four chronological sections: The electoral campaign, The vote of 2 June, The proclamation of the vote, The Constituent Assembly and de Nicola, Those days on the newsstand.
On the occasion of 2 June, Mattarella also sent a message to the Prefects of Italy, asking them to interpret it in the initiatives promoted at the local level on the anniversary of 2 June: "Dear Prefects, on the seventy-year anniversary of the republican choice, I I am grateful to address, through you, a greeting to those in the area who carry out public functions. Democracy finds in social cohesion the strengthening of its reasons. Every collective effort to seize, support and enhance the positive signals for the relaunch of the production system and every opportunity for employment and social growth must be encouraged”, said the President of the Republic.
The celebrations include a brief prologue on Thursday morning at 11, with the reopening of the Quirinal Gate, at the corner of the seventeenth-century nucleus of the building towards the headquarters of the Consulta, after a long philological recovery: an extra entrance, intended to better regulate access of the thousands of citizens who visit the "house of the Italians" every year. And shortly after, at 15 pm, there will be a solemn changing of the guard, with the deployment of the cuirassier regiment on horseback in the square, accompanied by the fanfare of the Army.
But the most awaited event of the party, from a symbolic point of view as well as popular participation, remains the parade of the armed forces tomorrow morning, along the Imperial Forums, this time preceded by 400 mayors (moreover, according to the explicit intent of the presidency of the Council, this must be the "Festa di tutti"). The President of the Republic will naturally be on stage, after placing a wreath at the Altare della Patria. Just as, in the afternoon, it will descend into the Quirinale gardens, open to the public without restrictions, from 15 pm. In the evening, a suggestive scenographic effect should be given to all of Rome by the tricolor lighting of the turret, which marks the highest point of the city.
