Dedicated to the Resistance hero Duccio Galimberti, this square is Cuneo’s parlor, both for its central location and for its size, 24,000 square meters, making it one of the largest in Italy.
Its construction dates back to the Napoleonic era, when the ancient defensive walls were destroyed. The buildings that surround it are mainly in neoclassical style, with terraces and decorations of Greco-Roman style, while in the center there is the statue of Giuseppe Barbaroux, lawyer and jurist originally from Cuneo.On May 21, 1945 the square was named after the hero of the Italian Resistance, Tancredi (Duccio) Galimberti, born in Cuneo in 1906 and killed by the fascists on December 3, 1944. At No. 6 is the Galimberti Family Museum and Library in what was once his home. Outside the porticoes in front of the Museum, a plaque contains a quotation from the famous speech that Duccio Galimberti made on 26th July 1943 from the terrace of his home
