This wonderful square is the social and commercial center of Poggio Mirteto. In 1610 it saw the foundations for its future urban structure gradually expanded and modified, as the buildings raised by a floor due to the demographic growth. The urban definition evolved with the construction of the retaining wall towards Rio Sole and the road leveling dated 1893.
The war memorial in the center of the square, inaugurated in August 9, 1926, is a work by Balestrieri. A memorial plaque tells the stay of Anita Garibaldi, who pregnant was hosted in the Lattanzi home. Garibaldi wanted to stay with his men at Valle Tonda-Rio Sole, where the small monument near the bus station was erected. An inscription remind the fallen in wars of citizens of Poggio with Garibaldi.
Other plaques commemorate the mortar shelling on civilians in 1944 and the fallen of II World War.
Where there is the newspaper kiosk today, the gallows were erected for the beheadings of the sentenced to death. The last execution took place in 1844, whit the death of Bartolomeo Di Pietro aged 28, and Giovanni Gerardi 25, convicted of killing a monk of Roccantica. The execution took place at the hands of the famous Executioner “Mastro Titta”.
On the facade of the house number 63, an interesting sundial saying: “NARDI posuit”, has been implanted in 1889 by Ercole Nardi, scholar and local historian.
Martyrs of Freedom Square
Position
Piazza Martiri della Libertà
02047 Poggio Mirteto (RI)
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This wonderful square is the social and commercial center of Poggio Mirteto. In 1610 it saw the foundations for its future urban structure gradually expanded and modified, as the buildings raised by a floor due to the demographic growth. The urban definition evolved with the construction of the retaining wall towards Rio Sole and the road leveling dated 1893.
The war memorial in the center of the square, inaugurated in August 9, 1926, is a work by Balestrieri. A memorial plaque tells the stay of Anita Garibaldi, who pregnant was hosted in the Lattanzi home. Garibaldi wanted to stay with his men at Valle Tonda-Rio Sole, where the small monument near the bus station was erected. An inscription remind the fallen in wars of citizens of Poggio with Garibaldi.
Other plaques commemorate the mortar shelling on civilians in 1944 and the fallen of II World War.
Where there is the newspaper kiosk today, the gallows were erected for the beheadings of the sentenced to death. The last execution took place in 1844, whit the death of Bartolomeo Di Pietro aged 28, and Giovanni Gerardi 25, convicted of killing a monk of Roccantica. The execution took place at the hands of the famous Executioner “Mastro Titta”.
On the facade of the house number 63, an interesting sundial saying: “NARDI posuit”, has been implanted in 1889 by Ercole Nardi, scholar and local historian.