Monumento ai Caduti — Mogliano Veneto (Vasco Vian, 1926)
Mogliano Veneto (1926): the winged Victory a young local sculptor, Vasco Vian, raised in the town's new square for the 260 Moglianesi killed in the First World War.
At a glance
At the centre of Piazza dei Caduti stands Mogliano Veneto’s memorial to its First World War dead: a bronze winged Victory on a stone pedestal, unveiled in 1926. It is the work of Giuseppe Vasco Vian, a young sculptor from the town, and it was inaugurated with the Duke of Aosta in attendance. The square, laid out in the same years by the architect Mario Fabris, was built around it.
Key facts
- Sculptor: Giuseppe Vasco Vian, a Mogliano native
- Inaugurated: 4 July 1926, in the presence of the Duke of Aosta
- Commemorates: the 260 Moglianesi killed in the First World War, most in 1917–1918
- Form: a bronze winged Victory on a stone pedestal
- Setting: centre of Piazza dei Caduti, framed by Fabris’s civic buildings
- Also: the fallen are named on a plaque in the Municipio’s council chamber
History
The First World War cost Mogliano 260 of its men, most of them killed in 1917 and 1918 as the front came close to the Veneto. In the mid-1920s the town gave them a monument at the heart of its new square. The commission went to a local sculptor, Giuseppe Vasco Vian, and the memorial was inaugurated on 4 July 1926, the Duke of Aosta presiding.
The monument shares its square with the town hall that Mario Fabris designed in the same years, the two forming a single civic ensemble of the 1920s. A fountain was added on the south side in 1935.
What you see
A winged Victory in bronze crowns the memorial, one arm raised, poised on a tall stone pedestal that lifts her above the square. The base carries the dedication to the fallen. Set at the meeting point of the streets that Fabris’s buildings define, the figure is visible the length of the piazza, and remains the focal point of the town centre.
The square between the wars
The memorial stood at the centre of Mogliano’s public life through the interwar decades, and the surviving photographs show the square filling around it for the town’s ceremonies and gatherings. Cultural Heritage Online records those images as historical documents of the piazza in those years; a fuller account is given in the Italian-language Ventennio archive.
Getting there
Mogliano Veneto sits on the Venice–Treviso railway; Piazza dei Caduti is a short walk from the station. The monument is in the open square and can be seen at any time.
Sources
- Hello Mogliano / PaesiOnline — Il Monumento ai Caduti (sculptor Vasco Vian, 1926 inauguration, 260 fallen, Duke of Aosta).
- Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali (ICCD), Monumento ai caduti, Mogliano Veneto, no. 0500365467.
- Il Diario online — Mario Fabris and the Piazza dei Caduti ensemble.
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