Statua del Gigante
Fourteen-meter concrete Neptune, war-scarred and missing his arms and trident, guarding a seaside terrace.
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This guide to the Statua del Gigante above Fegina beach in Cinque Terre opens in 1910, when twenty-nine-year-old sculptor Arrigo Minerbi raised a fourteen-meter concrete Neptune to carry a wealthy family's villa on its back. It follows Minerbi into 1937, when Italy's racial laws forced him into hiding as a Jewish artist, and into the Second World War, when the villa above became a German command post that drew Allied bombs. Look up at the statue's ragged, armless shoulders, shaped as much by that history as by any sculptor's design.
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