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Carabinieri Comando Legione Piemonte e Valle D’Aosta – Birth of the “Arma”

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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.

Carabinieri Comando Legione Piemonte e Valle D’Aosta – Birth of the “Arma”

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