Jovan Kratohvil's monument dedicated to the Yugoslav fallen in central Italy in Sansepolcro, Tuscany

The article aims to analyse the morphological and spatial characteristics and the historical reasons that led to the construction of the monument dedicated to the Yugoslav fallen of the Second World War in central Italy. The monument, designed by Jovan Kratohvil and inaugurated in Tuscany, in Sansepolcro, on December 15, 1973, represents the third memorial built by the Federal Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia in Italy within the framework of cultural collaboration amid the geopolitical context that resulted in the signing of the Osimo Treaties in 1975 between Rome and Belgrade. The monument is situated near the location of the fascist concentration camp of Renicci, where over one hundred and sixty Yugoslav prisoners lost their lives between the autumn of 1942 and the autumn of 1943. Built around a statue and a crypt, it is situated at the centre of a cemetery field and is closely related to a strictly defined typological context. Jovan Kratohvil regarded the project for the Sansepolcro memorial as one of his most significant achievements, representing a peak of his research conducted between the second half of the 1960s and 1974, during his initial phase of complete abstraction.