The monument was erected in 1923 when the town of Musocco was dissolved by royal decree and became part of Milan.
The monument is well visibie along Viale Carlo Espinasse dividing it to about 2/3 of its length.
The monument has a square base which on a second smaller stands a marble structure holding two statues with a crown iron on top. The overall height of the monument is about ten meters, two meters the square base. The monument is contained in a little patch that separates the monument from the tram tracks and the road with metal chains almost at ground lines at the corners with small stakes in cement.
The two statues are Italy, represented in pain and mourning for the death of the soldiers with his head bowed, and History the tragic event and victorious war represented with a book in hand, the first to the east, looking Via Giovanni Battista De Rossi, the second one to the west, Via Bernardino Galliari.
In the space under the statue Italy is written Musocco its glorious fallen, and under the Statue History dates of beginning and end of the Great War for Italy: XXIV-V-MCMXV IV-XI-MCMXVIII.
In the direction of Viale Espinasse are two bas-reliefs, which in religious terms represent the pain and consequences of war.
To the north a bas-relief depicting the mass in open place, which attends a gathering of military, captured when the celebrant elevates the Eucharist and to the south, in a second relief, in an outdoor scene, the light of Christ radiates a soldier sitting on the ground dying and that to Christ addresses and a soldier lying and already dead.
In a metal plate, in the basement under the south relief, it is written U. Prat indicating perhaps the author of the work.
Two plaques with the names of the fallen are arranged in the border under the bas-reliefs: the north with names from Agostoni to Gatti to the south with names from Gerosa to Villa, a total of 167 musocchesi remember.
The monument was restored by the city of Milan in 2008 and currently is in fairly good condition, new research would have revealed that the sculptor of the statues is Emilio Agnati probably the plaque U. Prat is back.
The monument is aesthetically valuable for the two statues and bas-reliefs, less successful it seems the backbone of the monument.
The monument is certainly historic value to the memory of a tragic event of such great importance, the First World War, provides a testimony of a municipality no longer exists and the will of the old administration and the inhabitants so harsh tried do not to forget and remembering alleviate the pain. I think that the monument still remains a symbol for the current inhabitants of the north-west of the city of Milan, although to have done learn it properly and with a new arrangement of the square.
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