Monumento alla Partigiana

The Monumento alla Partigiana stands in Venice as a memorial to women who resisted Nazi-Fascism during World War II. Augusto Murer created the sculpture, while Carlo Scarpa designed its stone base. Completed in 1969, the monument presents a bronze fallen partisan with tied hands and a body emerging from water. The bronze figure appears to emerge from the water. The work remembers women’s contribution to Venice’s liberation and their suffering during the resistance. The memorial followed an earlier polychrome ceramic statue, destroyed in a neo-fascist attack in 1961. Scarpa’s surviving stone base supported the later replacement. Murer had also participated in the Italian resistance, bringing personal wartime experience to the memorial’s subject. The surrounding garden offers a quiet setting for reflection. Scarpa’s design connects the sculpture with traditional stone and the surrounding landscape. Here, expressive realism, stone, bronze, and water join Venice’s history in one visible place.