The memorial stands in a busy square facing out across the water in the small town of Intra on the lake.
And its location is perfect.
All too often war memorials are sighted away from the hurly burly of everyday life and while this allows you to sit in peace and contemplate the sacrifices recorded on the panels of the memorial it also takes that record of the dead out of the space inhabited by the living.
So it is fitting that this one should be in that busy square surrounded by bars and a small playground allowing the living to acknowledge the war dead every time they sit and sip a coffee, meet friends or just play with the kids.
There are other memorials in Intra including one to a partisan executed in 1944 and another to the Italian air force.
Each like this one in a place where lots of people will pass by.
Location; Intra
Picture; war memorial Intra, 2018, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
So it is fitting that this one should be in that busy square surrounded by bars and a small playground allowing the living to acknowledge the war dead every time they sit and sip a coffee, meet friends or just play with the kids.
There are other memorials in Intra including one to a partisan executed in 1944 and another to the Italian air force.
Each like this one in a place where lots of people will pass by.
Location; Intra
Picture; war memorial Intra, 2018, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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