The "Black Statue", as it was established to be called, is the Hero of the city of Giannitsa, a work by the sculptor Grigorios Zevgolis that was placed there in 1926 in memory of the warriors who gave their lives for the liberation of the city from the Ottomans during the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913. This statue represents the Winged Time, and at his feet the mother Greece, having embraced her son, a killed soldier. It is located at the eastern entrance of the city by the Egnatia highway.