Italy's First Prime Minister

Piazza Cavour

Statue of Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

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In cities and towns, the length and breadth of the country, there are streets and squares named after Camillo Benso Count of Cavour, who was Italy's first prime minister.
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Cavour, as he is better known, was in office for less than three months; he died on June 6th 1861, at the age of fifty.

There is a grand monument to Cavour in the piazza that bears his name.