The Monument to the Carabinieri, also called ''Monumento alla Fiamma dei Carabinieri''(Monument to the Flame of Carabinieri) is a steel sculpture located in Piazza

Armando Diaz Armando Diaz, 1st Duke della Vittoria, (5 December 1861 – 28 February 1928) was an Italian general and a Marshal of Italy. He is mostly known for his role as Chief of Staff of the Regio Esercito during World War I from November 1917. He ...

, a central square in

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, Italy. The monument was creatd by Italian sculptor Luciano Minguzzi (1911-2004) and is dedicated to the men and women of

Carabinieri The Carabinieri (, also , ; formally ''Arma dei Carabinieri'', "Arm of Carabineers"; previously ''Corpo dei Carabinieri Reali'', "Royal Carabineers Corps") are the national gendarmerie of Italy who primarily carry out domestic and foreign polic ...

, the Italian

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. The flame which inspired the sculpture is a heraldic symbol prominently displayed on the caps of the corp, but it also artistically depicts a grenade, inscribed with the letters ''IR'' (an acronym for Italian Republic), and from which curving flames with 13 tips emerge. The flames marks the ''loyalty, fidelity, ardor and honor'' that define Carabinieri's service. The monument was commissioned to Minguzzi in 1972 and inaugurated on 3 December 1981, at the presence of Giovanni Spadolini, then President of the Milan City Council, and Carabinieri General Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa. A plaque at the base of the monument honoring the memory of dalla Chiesa was added a year later. Dalla Chiesa, who had led the Italian military's anti-terrorism forces in Lombardy in the mid-1970s, mainly directed against the

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, was ambushed and assassinated with his wife and their driver by the Mafia when he was appointed Prefect of Palermo.Mafia, Libera ricorda Dalla Chiesa in piazza Diaz
by Marcella Vezzoli, for Redattore Sociale, 3 September, 2013.

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