Monday’s Monument: Statue of Peace, Udine, Italy

Monday’s Monument: Statue of Peace, Udine, Italy

The Statue of Peace (the seated figure on the right of the photo) was donated to the city of Udine in 1819 by Emperor Francis I to commemorate the peace Treaty of Campoformido. It is located in the Piazza Liberta. Udine is in the far northeast of Italy, not far from...
Monday’s Monument: MexikoPlatz, Vienna, Austria

Monday’s Monument: MexikoPlatz, Vienna, Austria

In 1956 Vienna renamed Erzherzog-Karl-Platz (Archduke Karl Square) as MexikoPlatz, and erected this memorial commemorating Mexico’s condemnation of the Anschluss (Nazi annexation of Austria to make a “Greater Germany”) in March, of 1938, the only country in the...