The Monument to Gabriele D’Annunzio

The monument dedicated to D’Annunzio consists of a column surmounted by a Corinthian capital placed on a square base, on which is affixed an epigraph which recalls the controversial ‘Impresa di Fiume’. Following this, in 1925 the Municipality of Ronchi changed its name to Ronchi dei Legionari. The monument is located in San Polo, on the border between Monfalcone and Ronchi, not far from the eighteenth-century church dedicated to San Paolo, from which D’Annunzio stole the bell during the march on the Adriatic city of Fiume. In 1959, the veterans of the Vittoriale Legion set up a committee to erect the Monument to the Vate on a plot of land donated by engineer Cappelletti, right where the Grenadiers camped. A project by Split architect Vincenzo Fasolo was chosen, and, despite the negative local social-communist vote, the construction was approved and inaugurated on 30 October 1960.