Monumento all'Alpino, Military monument in Bruneck, Italy

The Monumento all'Alpino stands on Piazza Cappuccini in Bruneck, across the Rienz from the historic centre. Its porphyry base now carries only the repaired bust of the statue, after the 1979 bomb attack destroyed the full figure. The bust shows an Alpino with a hat and feather, the feather replaced in 2012 using fragments of the original monument.

The monument was originally erected in 1938 and experienced destruction during World War II. In the following decades it was rebuilt multiple times with different artistic approaches.

Locals nicknamed the statue Kapuziner-Wastl, roughly "the Capuchins' chubby fellow", a mocking name still heard in Bruneck. The square itself was reshaped for the monument: the old customs house and the Gasthof Am schwarzen Rössl were demolished to make room. Since 2011 multilingual panels explain the statue's history and its contested meaning.

The monument sits on a public square in central Bruneck and is freely accessible at any time. Information panels in multiple languages help visitors understand the place and its changing story.

The current monument displays only the upper portion of a reconstruction, the result of several acts of protest over the years. This fragmentary form itself tells a story of transformation and local disagreements.