Monument to the Fallen of All Wars

Inaugurated on 14 February 1982 on a flowerbed on one side of the open space between Via Ruffini and Corso Raimondo in the presence of the highest civil, military and religious authorities of the city and province,diplomatic agents and representatives of the main Armed Forces organisations and associations.

During the ceremony, ex-combatant lawyer Franco Ferrarsi gave the inaugural speech, which was introduced by the president of the Sanremo Combatants and Veterans Association Francesco Bronda, while the Bishop of Ventimiglia-Sanremo Angelo Raimondo Verardo delivered an intense homily after celebrating a Holy Mass before the monument was unveiled.

The monument, created by sculptor Pietro Lorenzoni, consists of a supine marble portrait of a fallen soldier, surmounted by a metal wing, while the part in front of the marble base of the monument bears the following inscription: "To the fallen of all wars and all homelands".

On the back side of the plinth is engraved a short poem dictated by Francesco Bronda and dedicated to the soldier's epic.

(source taken from the book "Sanremo Guida al patrimonio artistico e monumentale della città"; images from a private archive)