Monumento ai Caduti by Alberto Bazzoni, 1927
Piazza della Vittoria
Reggio Emilia, May 2024
“In the historic center of Reggio Emilia, between Piazza della Vittoria and the Public Gardens, the monument was inaugurated on October 30, 1927, on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the ‘March on Rome’. Commissioned in the 1920s by the city's political institutions, the monument features an architectural structure in granite, whose base measures sixteen meters, for a height of fifteen meters. It is decorated on both sides by two large bronze statues, depicting an infantryman and the winged Victory. The upper part is decorated with bas-reliefs, again in bronze, depicting the three Fates, a dying soldier supported by a female figure, a scene of work in the fields, figures of fighters. As was the case in many Italian cities in those 1920s, in a climate of growing nationalism, a monument was given the task of celebrating the values of the homeland, according to the fascist ideology of the time. The work was created by the Parma sculptor Alberto Bazzoni (1889-1973), winner of the competition that was organized specifically for this purpose.” (War Memorial, Reggio Emilia Welcome)
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