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Places, museums, monuments

From Corsica to St Helena, from Rome to Cuba, from Sweden to South Africa, quarter the globe as you track down the Napoleonic places, sites, collections and monuments worldwide.

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Places, museums, monuments : 23

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Island of St Helena

A small island lost in the middle of the south Atlantic Ocean, St Helena was chosen by the British government as place to exile the deposed Emperor. “The island of St Helena is the ideal place to lock away such a character. In such a place, so far away, no scheming of any kind will […]
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Museo Napoleonico – Rome

The Museo Napoleonico in Rome presents the collections of Count Giuseppe Primoli, the great-grandson of Joseph and of Lucien Bonaparte. Born in 1851 to Princess Charlotte Bonaparte and Count Primoli di Foglia, Giuseppe Primoli belonged to the Roman branch of the imperial family. He spent most of his youth in Paris, at Napoleon III's court […]
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Foro Buonaparte

When Napoleon named Milan the capital of the Cisalpine Republic on June 1st, 1797, he changed the city's destiny. In 1802 it became capital of the Italian Republic and then in 1805 capital of the Kingdom of Italy, firmly establishing its economic, political and administrative pre-eminence during the Napoleonic period. Furthermore, as a result of Milan's situation on […]