Most Italian war memorials speak the same language: a soldier, a rifle, a helmet, a name repeated until it stops meaning anything. This one does none of that. Mirko Vucetich’s monument at Bolzano Vicentino, in the plain between Vicenza and Bassano, is an embrace: two people who survived, finding each other again after the disaster.
The writer who described it for the Vicenza periodical *Vicenza In Centro* put it plainly — there is no weapon and no helmet, nothing of what we expect from such objects, only the sense of comfort at finding another human being still alive. It is a small building with a very large subject, and it is the work of the same man who designed Marostica’s living chess game.
⚠️ The date generally given for it is 1957, and it is the one thing here still to be confirmed against a document.
Record researched and written by Luigi De Marchi for Cultural Heritage Online, 2026.
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