The Monument to Daniele Manin is located on Viale dei Colli in Piazzale Galileo in the neighborhood of Arcetri in the outskirts of Oltrarno in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. In 1862, Venetians in Florence, who found themselves in exile after the Austrian reconquest of Venice planned to erect a monument to the patriot Daniele Manin (1804–1857). After the incorporation of Venice into Italy in 1866 the project was revived. After a contest, the statue was commissioned (1888) from the Venetian sculptor . It was cast in 1889 by the Micheli foundry in Venice, and inaugurated in place in the center of in 1890, a piazza then renamed for Daniele Manin. In 1931 the architect of the Office of Fine Arts of the Comune of Florence banished the statue to piazzale Galileo, on the grounds that limite