Lungotevere Guglielmo Oberdan is the stretch of

Lungotevere Lungotevere (Italian for ''Tiber Waterfront'') is an alley or boulevard running along the river Tiber within the city of Rome. The building of the Lungoteveres required the demolition of the former edifices along the river banks and the constr ...

that links Piazza Monte Grappa to Piazza del Fante in Rome (Italy), in the Della Vittoria quarter. The Lungotevere is dedicated to the

irredentist Irredentism is usually understood as a desire that one state annexes a territory of a neighboring state. This desire is motivated by ethnic reasons (because the population of the territory is ethnically similar to the population of the parent st ...

patriot

Guglielmo Oberdan Guglielmo Oberdan, (born Wilhelm Oberdank) (February 1, 1858 - December 20, 1882) was an Italian irredentist. He was executed after a failed attempt to assassinate Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph, becoming a martyr of the Italian unification movem ...

from

Trieste Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into prov ...

, who deserted the Austrian army and was hanged after his attempt to murder

Franz Joseph I of Austria Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I (german: Franz Joseph Karl, hu, Ferenc József Károly, 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the other states of the Habsburg monarchy from 2 December 1848 until his ...

. The Lungotevere was established as per Governor resolution on December 19, 1940. The Lungotevere is nearby the Ponte del Risorgimento; in the surroundings (Piazza Monte Grappa) rises the Convitto Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele II.

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*{{cite book, last1=Rendina , first1=Claudio, last2=Paradisi , first2=Donatella, title=Le strade di Roma. Volume secondo E-O, edition= 2004, publisher = Newton Compton Editori, Rome, isbn=88-541-0209-1 Oberdan Rome Q. XV Della Vittoria