Monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi, Bronze equestrian monument in Bologna, Italy

The Monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi is a bronze equestrian statue by Arnaldo Zocchi standing about halfway along Via Indipendenza, opposite the Arena del Sole in Bologna. The bronze group, cast by the Bruno foundry in Rome, rises on a Baveno granite base made by the Bolognese marble firm Davide Venturi, on the pedestal that had earlier held the monument to Ugo Bassi.

A month after Garibaldi's death in 1882, Bologna proposed a memorial; the competition was launched in 1896 for a 9-metre bronze, and Arnaldo Zocchi won in 1898. The work was inaugurated on 7 July 1900 on Via Indipendenza, on the pedestal that had held the Ugo Bassi statue.

The monument's contested siting inspired Alfredo Testoni's comedy "In dovv s'mett Garibaldi?", staged at the Teatro Contavalli on 17 March, in which Bologna's other statues debate where Garibaldi should go. At the 1900 unveiling, ex-Garibaldian Dioscoride Vitali gave the official speech and socialist deputy Andrea Costa spoke for the Imola socialists.

The monument stands at about the midpoint of Via Indipendenza, facing the Arena del Sole, not in a square. It is reached on foot along the portico-lined street, and the bronze statue on its Baveno granite base can be viewed from the pavement at any hour.

The placement debate inspired Alfredo Testoni's comedy "In dovv s'mett Garibaldi?", staged at the Teatro Contavalli on 17 March, in which the arguing characters are other Bolognese statues and monuments. The monument was inaugurated on 7 July 1900, and its bronze was cast by the Bruno foundry in Rome.