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Monumento ai Piccoli Martiri di Gorla

Monumento ai Piccoli Martiri di Gorla, War memorial in Gorla district, Milan, Italy.

The Monumento ai Piccoli Martiri di Gorla is an ossuary memorial by Remo Brioschi in Piazza Piccoli Martiri, Gorla. A bronze group shows a mother supporting a child's body; behind her a granite structure bears the words «ECCO LA GUERRA», the date 20 - X - 1944, and a relief of a plane bombing a building. Below, a small ossuary holds the remains of the dead.

On 20 October 1944, Allied bombs aimed at Milan fell on the Gorla elementary school, killing about 200 children and their teachers. The monument ossuary by Remo Brioschi was inaugurated in 1947 in Piazza Piccoli Martiri, and the victims are commemorated there every year.

Every year the monument hosts a commemoration of the victims of the 20 October 1944 bombing. The base inscription reads "IL POPOLO / PIANGE DUECENTO BAMBINI / UCCISI DALLA GUERRA / QUI NELLA LORO SCUOLA / CON I LORO MAESTRI", naming the children and their teachers killed in their school.

The monument stands in Piazza Piccoli Martiri in the Gorla district, on the site of the bombed school. The bronze and granite memorial is outdoors and can be viewed at any time; the small underground ossuary is not normally open to visitors.

Behind the bronze mother and child, the granite wall carries the words "ECCO LA GUERRA" followed by "20 - X - 1944" and a carved plane releasing a bomb on a building, with the explosion shown beside it. The relief spells out the sequence of the raid in three steps.

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