The stele supporting the statue of the Redeemer was placed at the highest point of the town. It was erected in 1900, the year of the Jubilee, completed in 1905, and inaugurated in 1907. Having identified the site at the end of Tiber Street (present-day Redeemer Street), the area of which was given free of charge by the Secondary Railroad Administration, a firm in Rome was commissioned to make the cast-iron statue, while the design of the plinth and obelisk was entrusted to engineer Dionigi Scano. The inauguration took place on Sept. 1, 1907 in the presence of the Archbishop of Cagliari Monsignor Balestra, the municipal administration, and the St. Ambrose committee with the accompaniment of many faithful. The stele supports the statue of the Redeemer, in gilded ghi sa. The plinth, elaborated as an obelisk. At the foot of the plinth a wrought-iron fence (long since disappeared) of fine workmanship enclosed a flowered space.
