Piazza Dante

The square is delimited by the modern structure "palazzo della Regione" (Adalberto Libera, 1954-62) to the east, the railway station to the north-west and the "palazzo della Provincia" (hall of the Province) to the north. A public park occupies its centre, in which Cesare Zocchi's famous statue of Dante Alighieri was erected by the city in 1896 during Austrian rule to express its Italian sentiment. To the west of the square, next to the bus station, stands the church of S. Lorenzo (XII century), built in romanic style with gothic elements. The church was reconstructed in 1955 having suffered serious damage in the 1943 bombings.