In a simmering political climate in Italy and America (both countries undergoing national elections and campaigns), it may be appropriate to turn our attention to the softer side of the hard debate on the Iraq war.
In November 2003 Italians lost 19 compatriots in a terrorist attack in Nassiriya, Iraq.
Plans were then underway to build a memorial in their honour, and that memorial has finally been completed and inaugurated in Rome.
Including 19 pillars, much like totem poles, and a circular path with a low wall in white stone, the monument has been built in the Schuster Ildefonso Park near St.
Paul’s outside the walls.
With added grass and the marble, Vincenzo Spagnulo’s design has pleased our colleagues more than first thought, given the original images seen.
Opera d’arte di Vincenzo Spagnulo