Remembrance Square

Beautiful rectangular square, overlooked by historic buildings such as Palazzo Giunta and Palazzo Pandolfi; Giunta-Musso Palace. It is the heart of the city and the stage for events of all kinds. In front of Palazzo Giunta, in an almost central position, there is the war memorial.
One of the historic buildings that was present inside the square was Palazzo Arezzo. It hosted the Pozzallo middle school until the 1957-58 school year, which then moved to the new building near via Scicli, now via Torino.
In the vicinity of Palazzo Musso, during the Second World War, there was the entrance to an anti-atomic shelter which led to what is now Via Garibaldi.
The War Memorial. Built and erected in 1928 by Benedetto D'Amore, surrounded on the sides of the square by forty-six palm trees, as many as the heroes (sailors) who fell in the First World War. The Pozzallo monument is a soldier who, naked and proud, looks towards the sea in front of him. His hands go to the rudder which, in addition to symbolizing his being a sea soldier, has the task of hiding the tiller of the rudder which, in 1928, had to obey a certain dictate which recalled the values of the past.




