Monumento ai Caduti, War memorial in Piazza Trento e Trieste, Monza, Italy.
The Monumento ai Caduti is a war memorial on Piazza Trento e Trieste in Monza featuring eleven bronze figures arranged diagonally on gray-pink stone from Tolmezzo. A sheltered entrance with three archways leads to a chapel that holds vessels containing sand and water from the Piave River.
Sculptor Enrico Pancera created this memorial over nine years, with money collected from Monza residents to fund the project. The monument was completed and dedicated in 1932 as a tribute to local soldiers lost in World War I.
The bronze plaques on three sides of the base list the 667 fallen of the Monza military district from World War I, and among them is Anna Galliani, the only woman on the list. Later the memorial was extended to all conflicts, with the names of Monza's World War II dead cut into tall marble slabs. A Carrara marble plaque carries the text of the Bollettino della Vittoria of 4 November 1918, flanked by two laurel wreaths.
The monument sits in the center of a public plaza and is easily reached on foot from surrounding areas. The covered entrance area provides some shelter, and visitors can enter the chapel to see the interior elements.
The bronze was cast by Fonderia Menescardi Austoni e Figini, a Lombard workshop active in monumental production of the period. Many Monza residents donated copper objects and other metals for the casting, alongside their cash contributions to the public subscription.
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