Monument Michel Servet, Bronze memorial monument in Champel, Switzerland.
Monument Michel Servet is a bronze statue paired with a stone stele located at the intersection of Avenue de la Roseraie and Avenue de Beau-Séjour in the Champel neighborhood. The memorial marks the spot where the physician and theologian lived and died during Geneva's early modern period.
The monument commemorates the execution of a physician and theologian in 1553 at the hands of Geneva's Calvinist authorities. The city created this memorial centuries later as a way to acknowledge a tragic moment in its own past.
The name Michel Servet represents a turning point in Geneva's relationship with religious freedom and tolerance. Visitors see how the city has chosen to remember a difficult chapter of its past through public remembrance.
The memorial sits at a street corner in the Champel district and is easy to reach on foot. The public space around it allows visitors to stop and read the inscriptions at their own pace.
The bronze statue was cast in 2011 using preserved molds from an earlier sculpture, creating a modern work that honors a much older artistic vision. This blend of contemporary casting and historical reference makes the memorial more complex than it first appears.
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