Murer’s Partigiana on the concrete and copper cubes flush with the water, in front of the Riva dei Partigiani Photo: Maspez, Wikimedia Commons, CC0
On the water’s edge, in front of the Giardini, there is a woman of bronze who seems to sleep on the surface. She lies on her side, her face turned to the lagoon, her bound hands beside her face: she is the Partigiana, the monument Venice dedicates to the women of the Resistance.