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The monument, situated in piazza del Risorgimento near Lucca train station and S. Pietro gate in the town walls, has a large, tall stone base with steps. Above this there is a vertical element where, at either side, there are two high-relief statues (the Sacrifice; the Warrior).
The structure is topped by a bronze equestrian statue of a classical warrior on a horse, with a small winged victory in his left hand and a flag pole in the right.
The Lucca War Memorial was inaugurated, after eight years of work, numerous bureaucratic iterative, changes of plan and differences of opinion on its location, in 1930 in the presence of the King.
Archivio Storico del Comune di Lucca (ASCL), Carteggio Miscellaneo, busta 272;
Deliberazione della Giunta Municipale 30 luglio 1924;
Delibera del Commissario straordinario 18 marzo 1930;
Il Monumento ai Caduti, in "Il Serchio" 14 marzo 1923; Il monumento ai caduti deve essere eretto in Piazza Napoleone, in "L'Intrepido" 4 marzo 1923;
Per il monumento ai Caduti, in "L'Intrepido" 25 marzo 1923; Il Re Vittorioso nella gloria di Lucca fascista e La grandiosa cerimonia inaugurale nel piazzale Umberto, in "Il Popolo Toscano" 11 novembre 1930.;
TRINCI ALMO LUIGI, L'opera dello scultore Alfredo Angeloni, in "La Provincia di Lucca", a. VI, n. 4 (ottobre-dicembre 1966).
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