Guglielmo Marconi crossed the Atlantic more than eighty times, traveled around the world, visited dozens of countries, and, above all, connected increasingly distant places, reaching as far as the antipodes.
His roots are in Bologna, where he was born on April 25, 1874, and in Pontecchio Marconi, where he began his first wireless experiments at Villa Griffone.
After his twenties, he settled in London; after his forties, he lived for a long time on the Elettra, the yacht he had converted into a mobile laboratory. After his fifties, he settled in Rome.
Bilingual, a man of two centuries and two cultures (his mother was Irish), he did not hesitate to define himself as Italian as an individual and a citizen of the world as a scientist.
