Democracy Monument
Constitutional monument whose every measurement encodes the date of Thailand's 1932 revolution.
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This guide to the Democracy Monument in Bangkok follows Italian sculptor Corrado Feroci, who finished the monument in 1940 without knowing he would soon need to vanish into a new identity to survive the war. It traces how the 1932 revolution that ended Siam's absolute monarchy is encoded into the structure's own measurements, and what became of Feroci as Thailand's wartime politics closed in on him. It also touches on the crowds who later gathered on this same avenue in 1992. Look up at the four wings and count what each height is quietly marking.
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