The monument of the fallen of the First and Second World War in the municipality of Turri (1948 – 1949)

Abstract

Turri is a small village in southern Sardinia, located in the Campidano plain, in a historicalgeographical area used since Roman times for the cultivation of cereals, called Marmilla. An autonomous municipality until 1928, in that same year it was united, together with the small centre of Setzu, to the municipality of Tuili. After regaining autonomy in 1946, one of the first measures taken by the civic administration was the arrangement of Piazza Martiri, where the monument to the fallen of the First and Second World Wars was erected. The history of the construction of this monument is reconstructed through municipal sources, namely through the papers of category X (“Public Works”) kept in the historical archives of the small municipality.
In particular, an analysis of the “Rendiconto Generale delle offerte e delle prestazioni eseguite per la costruzione del monumento ai caduti di Turri” (General statement of the offers and services rendered for the construction of the monument to the fallen soldiers of Turri) reveals the commitment and active collaboration of an entire community, all involved, with offers of money and beans, but also with free labour, in the collective effort to erect the monument, still present today and open to visits in the Funtana Noba district, in perpetual memory of the sacrifice of the Turri combatants.