Carabinieri Comando Legione Piemonte e Valle D’Aosta – Birth of the “Arma”
Returning to Turin after the Savoy Restoration, Victor Emmanuel I found that he did miss one aspect of French domination after all: their upholding of public order. Takin inspiration from the French "gendarmerie", on July 13, 1814 the King thus founded the Royal Carabinieri Corps, stationed in a building on piazza Carlina. The barracks ("caserma") were later named after Chiaffredo Bergia, who, after joining the corps at the age of twenty, waged a fierce war against Southern banditry before surrendering to pneumonia. Even now, two centuries later, Caserma Bergia hosts the headquarters to the Carabinieri's Piedmont and Aosta Valley Legion.