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Municipality:
Common of Pieve Fosciana
Recommended season:
all the season
Opening hours:
always opened
Entrance:
free
Address:
Via San Giovanni, 21
District/Location:
Pieve Fosciana
District:
Garfagnana
The monument in honour of the Fallen of the first world war is composed of a marble obelisk, about six meters high and located on a base formed by solids of different measures. In front of the obelisk you can see a statue which represents a naked soldier with helmet: with his right hand, he holds a tunic which winds him on the shoulders and pubic area. In the front part of the obelisk, on the jutting part of the state base, you can read the memorial inscription “Pieve Fosciana ai suoi Caduti”. The date of start and end of the first world war is written, in Roman numerals, in the front of the obelisk, while on the other sides there are engraved some Fascist friezes.
Via San Giovanni, 21 Pieve Fosciana
The finding of the area for the realization of the monument, as witnessed by different newspapers, has caused many problems. The local press has helped us to understand that the realization works started on the first months of 1930 and then the official inauguration has been made on 13th November 1932 at the presence of military, civil and religious authorities.
The work has been ordered by the Fighting Association of Pieve Fosciana.
Alberto Cheli
At present, in front of the monument there is the Memorial Avenue: this avenue with its double line of cypresses, is what remains of the Memorial Park, realized on 1920 (about) in honour of those sixty eight young men of “Comune Caduti per la Patria” in the first world war. The avenue brings from the square of Alpini up to the town graveyard, where, on the external wall, in the '70s, two plates with the names of the Fallen of Pieve Foscian have been put.
- Archivio Comune Pieve Fosciana, materiale fotografico, dépliant.
- Archivio Ana Lucca, opuscolo dell’ANA Sezione Pisa-Lucca-Livorno-Grosseto. Gruppo di Pieve Fosciana relativo al Raduno Sezionale Alpini del 26 e 27 Settembre 1998
- “L’Intrepido”, 87, 1924, cit. in GIGI SALVAGNINI, La scultura nei monumenti ai Caduti della prima guerra mondiale in Toscana. Bagno a Ripoli-Firenze, Il Bandino snc, 1999, scheda n° 255.
- Profili d’artisti garfagnini. Lo scultore Alberto Cheli, in “La Garfagnana”, 14 aprile 1927.
- S.E. il Prefetto e il Segretario Federale inaugurano a Pieve Fosciana il Monumento ai Caduti, in “Il Popolo Toscano”, XIII, 272, martedì 15 novembre 1932, terza edizione.
- IV novembre”, in “La Nazione”, XCI, 259, martedì 8 novembre 1949, edizione del mattino.
- Le celebrazioni del IV novembre, in “Il Tirreno”, XII, 262, mercoledì 7 novembre 1956.
- “La Garfagnana”, novembre 1958.
- GIOVANNETTI FAUSTO, La Garfagnana rende omaggio agli alpini della divisione “Julia”, in “La Nazione”,126, 70, domenica 11 marzo 1984.
- GIOVANNETTI FAUSTO, Alpini festeggiano l’inaugurazione della sede, in “La Nazione”, 129, 122, venerdì 8 maggio 1987.
- Pieve Fosciana Paese del Tricolore. Raduno Regionale dei Bersaglieri-23 febbraio 1997.
- SALVAGNINI GIGI, La scultura nei monumenti ai Caduti della prima guerra mondiale in Toscana. Bagno a Ripoli-Firenze, Il Bandino snc, 1999, scheda n° 255.
- PULITI MARISTELLA, Monumenti ai Caduti in Garfagnana. Guerra 1915-1918. Scheda su Pieve Fosciana.La quale allega una pagina tratta da Fausto Giovanetti, Pieve Fosciana, ieri e oggi, p. 26.
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