The Victory Monument is a monument in Bolzano, northernmost Italy, erected on the personal orders of Benito Mussolini in South Tyrol, which had been annexed from Austria after World War I. The 19 metre wide Victory Gate was designed by architect Marcello Piacentini and substituted the former Austrian Kaiserjäger monument, torn down in 1926–27. Its construction in Fascist style, displaying lictorial pillars, was dedicated to the "Martyrs of World War I".
Victory Monument in Bolzano-Bozen
Sculpture portraying Cesare Battisti, by Adolfo Wildt
Multilingual signpost of the Permanent Exhibition «BZ '18–'45: One Monument, One City, Two Dictatorships»
The Austrian president Heinz Fischer and his wife Margit visiting the monument in June 2016
Bolzano is the capital city of the province of South Tyrol, in Northern Italy. With a population of 108,245, Bolzano is also by far the largest city in South Tyrol and the third largest in historical Tyrol. The greater metro area has about 250,000 inhabitants and is one of the urban centers within the Alps.
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