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Style: Rationalism (1935)

Designer: Ubaldo Badas

In 1923 there were already 1048 war memorial parks in Italy, founded to remember with a tree every fallen soldier of the World War I. In Cagliari the project of the memorial and adjacent green area was assigned to Ubaldo Badas, a leading exponent of Sardinian rationalism. The entrance is marked by two high fasces, with a granite base where alternating blocks of trachyte and stone from Serrenti were laid, listing the names and dates of the main battles of World War I in raised letters. On the other side of the forged iron railing is the heart of the monument, a red trachyte and limestone exedra, with the names of the fallen soldiers of the World War I. This semicircular area recalls the apse of a Romanesque church also in the choice and laying of the materials, whose colours bring to mind the flashes of the Brigata Sassari. The park is located behind the exedra.

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