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.