Monument to the Fallen

The Monument to the Fallen of the city of Lecco is an extraordinary granite memorial stone created in 1926 by Giannino Castiglioni, one of the greatest sculptors of the twentieth century. 

The lakeside Monument pays tribute to those from Lecco who fell in the Great War – to whom those of the conflict in Africa and the Second World War were added – and portrays a lady with her wings folded and her faced wracked with pain, which is regarded as the symbol of the Motherland, gazing across Lake Como and the mountains.

At the foot of the stela on a stepped, stone base, a band of bronze high reliefs runs along all four sides, created by the Fonderia Artistica Battaglia of Milan in 1923. These high reliefs depict the passion of the combatants in various scenes: at the back, the soldier who abandons his land, represented by the work in the fields; on the sides, the separation from loved ones, with his woman and his child, and the departure for the front, with the attack; finally, the victorious fallen, that is, the death of the combatant, is portrayed at the feet of the female figure.