page_title: Piazza della Repubblica, Alcamo
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Piazza della Repubblica, Alcamo / History
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Piazza della Republlica (lato Nord)
context_page_description: Piazza della Repubblica is the largest square in Alcamo, a town in the province of Trapani. It is located in the town centre.
context_section_description: Its origin dates back to the middle of the 14th century:  at first it was used as a place-of-arms for  military exercise.  The only building existing at that time was the Church of Saint Mary of Jesus and its  convent of the Order of Friars Minor south of it,  while, on the sides of the square there were just some small rural buildings.
  In the early 19th century, the castle was given to the municipality by the last Counts of Modica,  and the square was not used for its primary scope any longer. Later, the town municipality placed an abreuvoir in this square and, another one in Piano Santa Maria.  It was first called Piazza del Progresso, as it was in the middle of an rapidly expanding area.
  In 1903, after the anarchic bombing which caused  Umberto I’s death, it was named for him, but in 1946, with the arrival of Italian Republic,  it was given the present name.  From 1922 to 1946 the square was used as a football ground, as it was the only large area available for this activity.
  In the 1960s it was asphalted, and they built the bus station with two platforms;  they also settled the garden, by realizing some flowerbeds,  planting some trees and flowers and placing benches. In the first Garibaldian centennial  (1860) they had put two marble busts representing the two Triolo brothers (Stefano and Giuseppe Triolo),  who took part in the revolts and in Giuseppe Garibaldi’s deed: these works, realized by Giuseppe Bambina (a sculptor from Alcamo),  were then removed because of the continuous  acts of vandalism, and at present (May 2018) they are placed at the entrance of the Castello dei conti di Modica.
caption: The square seen from the north
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