The monument of Migliano is dedicated to the Fallen of the first world war. It is a marble obelisk, pyramidal and with square base, located on the two stone grades surmounted by three marble bases with square section, decreasing and of variable height. The pyramid cone stele is surmounted by a small pyramid whose top there is a little sphere on which you can see a bronze eagle. On the front, at the centre of the monument, a star is engraved. A garland of evergreen branches is all around the base of the obelisk. On the lower block there are the images and names of the Fallen, three for every side. In the lower block, on the front, it is engraved a helmet which surmounts a sword, a bayonet and an olive branch. Under it, there is a bronze slab engraved: on the left a small “vittoria”. On the right the “Bollettino della Vittoria”. The monument is surrounded with a forged iron gate.
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The work is signed by M. Guidi. Artist of Pontecosi, Guidi is the author of other monuments to the Fallen in the area of Garfagnana, amongst them the tombstone of the church of S. Andrea in Cerretoli (Castelnuovo Garfagnana) inaugurated on 21st September 1919 and the tombstone of the church of S. Bartolomeo in Gragnanella (Castelnuovo Garfagnana) inaugurated on 17th August 1919.
Parish of Migliano, probably after the proposal of Father Chiari.
It is a monument realized in the first after-war period, one of the first ones of the entire area of Garfagnana.
Ai prodi
caduti per la patria
1915-1918
la parrocchia di Migliano
il 14 giugno 1919
On the front of the monument, in the lower part, there is the bronze “Bollettino della Vittoria”.
On the right:
S.Bertoncini
B. Tognetti
P. Tognetti
L. Bonini
On the back:
F. Moscardini
A. Salotti
S. Moscardini
On the left:
C. Pieroni
S. Ricci S.T.
A. Pardini