Monumento ad Antonio Zannoni, di Ercole Drei

Description: A monument that is important not only as a work of art – a “minor” creation by the famous Ercole Drei – but also because of the person it depicts: Antonio Zannoni (1833-1910), the ingenious and eclectic figure of architect-engineer-archaeologist who in himself enclosed technical skills and aesthetic awareness. Zannoni is famous for some of his architectural creations (Villa Gessi at Sarna, the Thermal springs of Riolo, the Galleria degli Angeli at the Cemetery of the Charterhouse in  Bologna, Palazzo Zucchini in Faenza), for some of his farseeing engineering projects (reactivating the roman aqueduct in Bologna), participation in identifying the line for the railway tracks from Faenza-Florence) and for several archaeological finds in Bologna and Faenza and for the way he sustained his ideas, often in contrast to his enraged detractors. The monument represents one of the very few memories that remain of this man in Faenza, in addition to the stone on his native home in via S.Maria dell’Angelo and a street named after him in the city outskirts.

Directions: Take Viale Baccarini from the city centre towards the Railway Station, where you will find a small monument almost at the beginning on the left hand side after the news stand in a large flower bed that is slightly raised from the street.