page_title: LaFenice
section_title: Theme
hierarchical_section_title: LaFenice / Theme
context_page_description: LaFenice is a public sculpture by the Architecture and Vision design team, Arturo Vittori and Andreas Vogler, sited in the Piazza della Memoria of the waterfront in Messina, Sicily in Italy. The sculpture for this memorial square was selected in a city-sponsored competition as part of a larger urban renewal project started in 2003 to revitalize the public spaces between buildings built in the 1930s along the quay. The sculpture was unveiled on June 23, 2011.
context_section_description: The sculpture's upward thrust commemorates the collective memory of the citizens that have tenaciously rebuilt their city each time it has been devastated by war or natural disaster, most famously, the December 1908 earthquake. Nearly every building was leveled and thousands died. The mythological Phoenix bird, magically ascending from its own ashes, is a symbol of hope and renewal.
caption: The mythological Phoenix is a symbol of hope and renewal
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