Monument dedicated to the Martyrs of Liberty, also called Statue of Liberty by the people of Salerno.
The work is by Gaetano Chiaromonte and was inaugurated in 1912 in the space where the patriots of Salerno were condemned to the gallows.
Almost fifteen metres high, the monument is composed of a grey granite column, four metres high, which belonged to the ancient temple of Pomona found near the Via del Vescovado, placed on a stone pedestal. At its top there is a composite capital while, south of the column, there is a bronze statue, made in the Chiurazzi Foundries of Naples.
The bronze statue, is a prototype of the beauty expressed in those years, a typical example of Italian classicism that has the most distant origins in the Greek tradition.
On the base of the pedestal, north side, is placed the Italian flag and on the column two bronze cartouches with the dates 1870, in memory of the breach of Porta Pia to the east and 1794 in memory of the Neapolitan uprisings to the west.
