All wars memorial in Busto Arsizio, War memorial in Piazza Trento e Trieste, Italy.
The all wars memorial in Busto Arsizio consists of two tall, oblique reinforced-concrete steles clad in pink granite slabs, standing in Piazza Trento e Trieste. Between them hang three nude bronze male figures in free fall, representing the fallen in the air, on land and at sea. Low-relief carvings on the outer faces show faith, work and family on the southern stele and the ideals behind sacrifice on the northern one.
Sculptor Enrico Manfrini created this memorial in 1958 as a tribute to those from Busto Arsizio who died in multiple armed conflicts. The work emerged in the years following World War II and reflects a need to process losses from warfare.
Locals call the square "piazza tri cü" (three backsides) after the three nude bronze men falling between the two granite-clad concrete steles, representing the dead in the sky, on land and at sea. The base carries the inscription "a gloria dei suoi figli / caduti per la patria / BUSTO ARSIZIO / in auspicio di pace".
The memorial stands in the middle of Piazza Trento e Trieste, not in front of Palazzo Marliani-Cicogna, where it was first placed in 1958. It was dismantled for square renovation works in 2010, restored, and put back in 2011. Look for the inscription on the stone base reading "a gloria dei suoi figli / caduti per la patria / BUSTO ARSIZIO / in auspicio di pace".
The three bronze figures are naked men falling freely between the two oblique stele, standing for the dead in the sky, on land and at sea. Because of their nudity, locals nicknamed the square "piazza tri cü", in dialect "square of the three backsides".
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