Place Giuseppe Garibaldi

This guide to Place Giuseppe Garibaldi in Nice follows the troubled making of its bronze statue, from sculptor Antoine Etex's death before his design was finished, through a contractor who also died before completing the pedestal, to Gustave Deloye's rework with lions for Garibaldi's two sons and cannons marking his unification campaigns. It also covers the monument's unlikely brush with a 2007 tramway project that moved the whole assembly eighteen meters across the square. Look closely at the cannon barrels for the carved campaign dates.