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Recommended season:
all the season
Opening hours:
always opened
Entrance:
free
Municipality:
Common of Filicaia
Location:
Filicaia
Address:
Via Francesco Vecchiacchi, Filicaia
District/Location:
Camporgiano
District:
Garfagnana
In the monument, dedicated to the Fallen of the first world war, it is represented a naked soldier with helmet, dagger and an eagle on the top. On the front of the work there are tombstones dedicated to the Fallen of both wars. The commemorative sculpture is realized with local white marble; the eagle and the soldier are engraved in high-relief and, in some points, you can see the signs of chiselling. The monument is in a perimetrical enclosure delimited by a metallic balustrade.
Via Francesco Vecchiacchi, Filicaia, 55031
On the monument two gravestones are read in memory respectively of the fallen of the first and second war:
Lapide I guerra:
Filicaia
to his fallen
heroically fallen
for the homeland
1915-1918
sold. Biagioni Alessio
Cavani Paolo
Cavani Rocco
Grilli Alduino
Grassi Luigi
Lenzi Azelio
Munnari Luigi
Suffredini Raffaello
Ferrari Andrea
Lapide II guerra:
1940 – 1945
Sold. Biagioni Luigi
Biagioni Riccardo
Gherardi Aldo
Grassi Alfredo
Suffredini Gemello
Ferrari Luigi
Grilli Alberto
Lapide I guerra:
Filicaia
to his fallen
heroically fallen
for the homeland
1915-1918
sold. Biagioni Alessio
Cavani Paolo
Cavani Rocco
Grilli Alduino
Grassi Luigi
Lenzi Azelio
Munnari Luigi
Suffredini Raffaello
Ferrari Andrea
Lapide II guerra:
1940 – 1945
Sold. Biagioni Luigi
Biagioni Riccardo
Gherardi Aldo
Grassi Alfredo
Suffredini Gemello
Ferrari Luigi
Grilli Alberto
The monument, together with the Memorial Park (today no more existed), has been realized on 1925 and solemny inaugurated the same year.
In the twenties it was born a town committee, presided by Mr. Alberto Grilli, which has followed all the phases of the funds collect and realizations of the work.
Guido Cheli. Sculptor coming from Lucca, born on 1885, died at Massa Carrara on 1966.
He monument, which probably suffered damage during the war, was restored in 1978 and then inaugurated again on November 5th of the same year, in the presence of military, civil and religious authorities. On this occasion, a plaque was added to commemorate the fallen of the Second World War.
- ARCHIVIO ANCR LUCCA, notiziario n° 56, 12 agosto 1978.
- ARCHIVIO ANCR LUCCA, notiziario n° 57, 14 dicembre 1978.
- Inaugurazione del Monumento ai Caduti di Filicaia Garfagnana, in “L’Intrepido”, VI, 303, 3 novembre 1925.
- “Artista moderno”, 1926, p. 153 spec cit. in GIGI SALVAGNINI, La scultura nei monumenti ai Caduti della prima guerra mondiale in Toscana, Firenze, Tip. Il Bandino, 1999, p. 78.
- “Artista moderno”, 1927, p. 372, cit in GIGI SALVAGNINI, La scultura nei monumenti ai Caduti della prima guerra mondiale in Toscana, Firenze, Tip. Il Bandino, 1999, p. 78.
- Altre celebrazioni della Vittoria in Lucchesia, in “Il Popolo Toscano”, VIII, 278, 11 Novembre 1927-V, quarta edizione.
- “Il Popolo Toscano”, IX, 255, 8 Novembre 1928, seconda edizione.
- Festa patriottica a Filicaia, in “La Garfagnana”, novembre 1978.
- Camporgiano – Festa del Gruppo, in “Stella Alpina”, XXVI, 2, giugno 1986.
- SALVAGNINI GIGI, La scultura nei monumenti ai Caduti della prima guerra mondiale in Toscana, Firenze, Tip. Il Bandino, 1999, p. 78.
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