Monument to the Italian Resistance, Monument in Piazzale della Pace, Parma, Italy.

The Monument to the Italian Resistance stands in Piazzale della Pace, in front of the Palazzo della Pilotta. Sculptor Marino Mazzacurati and architect Guglielmo Lusignoli placed a partisan holding a Sten submachine gun atop a large block of Sarnico stone; at its base lies a second, dead partisan propped against a wall.

Partisan associations proposed a monument in April 1951, backed by President Luigi Einaudi and Premier Alcide De Gasperi; a public subscription funded it. A competition drew 49 entries, won by sculptor Marino Mazzacurati and architect Guglielmo Lusignoli. It was inaugurated on 30 June 1956 before President Giovanni Gronchi and tens of thousands of people, on the spot facing the Pilotta where a statue of King Vittorio Emanuele II had been blown up in July 1946.

On 25 April 1963, the eighteenth anniversary of the liberation, the recast statue of the dying partisan was officially inaugurated again after a time bomb damaged it in 1961. The monument remains the focus of the city's Liberation Day ceremonies, when wreaths are laid at the Sarnico stone.

The monument stands in a public square and is freely accessible year-round without admission requirements. Visit during daylight hours when natural light clearly reveals the details of the bronze figures.

The dying partisan at the base of the Sarnico stone is a copy: the original, damaged by a time bomb in 1961, was recast by Mazzacurati and moved in October 1968 to the Villetta cemetery, near the partisan graves.