Modena was awarded a Gold Medal for
its part in the Resistance, and there are discreet commemorations
of the War years around the city. In piazza Grande, for example,
two stone plaques on the wall of the Bishop's residence commemorate
a massacre of Modena people and the shooting of three Partisan
fighters, while a panel below the Ghirlandina tower contains the
names and faces of the Modena people who died in the struggle
for liberation. They are also recalled in the city's cemetery
by a memorial chapel, where a sculpture by A. Pomodoro
represents a wedge cutting into a globe, suggesting a world requiring
change.
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