The Gardens of Florence - L'Indiano at the park Le Cascine

In the largest public park in Florence, Le Cascine, unexpectedly you meet a monument dedicated to an Indian prince! The young Indian prince Rajaram Chuttraputti of Kolhapur, returning from England where he had visited the queen, suddenly died in Florence on the 30th November 1870, at the age of 21. According to the Hindu rite, his body was cremated at the confluence of two rivers (the Arno and the Mugnone) where his ashes were then scattered. And there his relatives wanted to build his funeral monument, in the shape of a canopy supported by four columns, under which there is the bust of the deceased prince. A long motorway bridge was built behind it, called il Viadotto dell'Indiano. Florence, Le Cascine Park, Viale dell’Indiano.