The Field of Glory consists of 48 stone cubes in which rest the remains of 1126 fallen partisans: that civilized Italy, as Norberto Bobbio put it, “that shed its blood for the freedom and dignity of the Fatherland.”
To give them a proper burial and create a symbolic place, on May 21, 1945, the City of Turin decided to build a Field of Glory at the Monumental Cemetery. The memorial was built by architects Beppe Maggiora and Enrico Cellino. The Monument to the Fallen of the Resistance was later built in 1946 by Carlo Mollino and Umberto Mastroianni.
Of those buried, 900 were recovered in the Piedmont mountains by partisan Nicola Grosa. There are unknown and known partisans such as Eusebio Giambone, Renato Martorelli, Vera and Libera Arduino, Renato Cottini, Dante Di Nanni and then French, Soviet, Austrian, German, Polish, Yugoslav and Czechoslovakian fighters. An urn with ashes from the Nazi death camps commemorates the murdered deportees.
One hundred and forty-two partisans buried here are also remembered by plaques walled in the streets where they fell.
