Euro Monument Rieti

The National Monument to the Lira was inaugurated on 1st March 2003, in Piazza Cavour, to celebrate the memory of the historic Italian currency. The choice fell on the city of Rieti because this city has historically the value of the center of the country.  The work, based on the drawing designed by the artist Daniela Fusco, was made by melting 2,200,000 coins 200 Lire. 
The monument portrays the personification of Italy adorned with draperies representing the tricolour with the inscription "L'Italia per la Lira", which in the base widen like the roots of a tree, to remember the stability and unity of the country, and then rise and gather around the figure giving rise to a movement that alludes to the monetary circulation of the Lira, to the journey of our currency over the years, to its history, until the creation of the European Union.