Congress of Verona
in Verona, ItalyCategory: Attraction
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The Congress of Verona met at Verona on 20 October 1822 as part of the series of international conferences or congresses that opened with the Congress of Vienna in 1814–15, which had instituted the Concert of Europe at the close of the Napoleonic Wars.
The Quintuple Alliance was represented by the following persons:
Russia: Emperor Alexander I and Count Karl Robert Nesselrode (minister of foreign affairs). Count George Mocenigo (Ambassador of Russia in Torino), was also present;
Austria: Prince Metternich;
Prussia: Prince Hardenberg and Count Christian Gunther von Bernstorff;
France: The duc de Montmorency-Laval (minister of Foreign Affairs) and François-René de Chateaubriand;
United Kingdom: The Duke of Wellington, who was taking the place of Viscount Castlereagh after his suicide on the eve of the congress.
