Fontana a Pinocchio

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The Fontana a Pinocchio ("Fountain dedicated to Pinocchio") is a fountain and sculptural monument located in a traffic island in Corso Indipendenza, a central avenue of Milan, Italy. It is decorated with a complex of bronze statues based on Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, designed by Italian sculptor Attilio Fagioli (1877–1966) and realized by the Fonderia Artistica Battaglia foundry. The sculptures were completed by Fagioli in 1955 and the fountain was inaugurated on May 19, 1956. The main statue portrays Pinocchio, after his transformation into a child, looking down at the inanimate body of the puppet he used to be. Smaller statues of the Cat and the Fox characters from Collodi's book were part of the complex, but have since been partially vandalized. The pedestal on which Pinocchio is standing bears an inscription by the Milanese poet Antonio Negri (1881–1966) and based on a line in Collodi's book, reading:

Com'ero buffo quand'ero un burattino! E tu che mi guardi, sei ben sicuro di aver domato il burattino che vive in te? In 1989, several prefabricated shopping stalls were placed in the traffic lane where the fountain is located, thus making it less visible than it...