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The monument to the dead is located in a little garden, near the church of San Giorgio Piacentino<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The monument to the dead<\/h3>\n

On top of a basement, composed by many piled up rocks, there is a bronze sculpture of a standing soldier; his movement is showing his action throwing a big stone at the enemy.
\nA rifle is placed to his feet. Among the stones there are a Latin cross and a bronze crown made of bay and oak leaves with a sword in the middle.<\/p>\n

In the past on the side of the monument two cannons were set, which were recently removed.<\/p>\n

The author<\/h3>\n

The sculpture was created by Ugo Rancati (1895-1976) a sculptor from Piacenza. The monument was unveiled on the 19th September 1924.
\nOn the basement are placed two bronze books; the left one contains a list of all the first World war dead soldiers; on this book\u00a0 there’s an epigraph taken from the poem of Giosu\u00e8 Carducci, Bicocca di San Giacomo (1891).<\/p>\n

The book on the right side was added later, remembering the dead of the II World War.<\/p>\n

The place<\/h3>\n

San Giorgio Piacentino is a little town 15 kilometers far from Piacenza. Do not miss the Rocca <\/strong>(Stronghold) from the sixteenth century, wanted by Alessandro Anguissola and later assigned to Jacopo Barozzi, known as Vignola.
\nNowadays the building is used for private celebrations and once in a while it’s open to touristic visits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The monument to the dead is located in a little garden, near the church of San Giorgio Piacentino. On top of a basement, composed by many piled up rocks, there is a bronze sculpture of a standing soldier; his movement is showing his action throwing a big stone at the enemy. A rifle is placed to his feet. Among the stones it\u2019s visible a Latin cross and a bronze crown made of bay and oak leaves with a sword in the middle. The sculpture was created by Ugo Rancati (1895-1976) a sculptor from Piacenza. The monument was unveiled on the 19th September 1924. On the basement are placed two bronze books; the left one contains a list of all the soldier dead of the first world war; on this book it\u2019s readable an epigraph taken from the poem of Giosu\u00e8 Carducci, Bicocca di San Giacomo (1891). 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