Today's Piazza del Tribunale in Bolzano was created between 1939 and 1942 as Piazza Arnaldo Mussolini. Its construction was already part of the 1933/34 urban development plan for a "Greater Bolzano". The former building of the National Fascist Party now houses the tax office. Above it stands a giant relief by Hans Piffrader, depicting Mussolini on horseback at its centre. The entire relief is composed of 57 panels of varying widths, each 2.75 metres high, stretching across a width of 36 metres. Weighing 95 tonnes, it is the largest surviving relief from the Italian Fascist era.

In 2011, a design competition for the façade's redesign was launched. Instead of removing the relief, the decision was made to add long-overdue contextual information about its origin and preserve it as a memorial. Participation was substantial: From 486 submitted proposals, five winning projects were chosen, including the design by the two Gardena artists Arnold Holzknecht and Michele Bernardi. Six years later, illuminated lettering spelling out "No one has the right to obey" in the three regional languages - German, Italian, and Ladin - was installed above the relief.

After nightfall, the Piazza del Tribunale is illuminated by this quote, attributed to Hannah Arendt, a German-American philosopher of Jewish origin. It is a shortened version of a sentence from a 1964 radio interview. The complete quote, "No one has the right to obey, according to Kant", referred to the case of Adolf Eichmann, an SS-Obersturmbannführer, highlighting how totalitarian regimes demand unconditional obedience and exercise a bureaucratic "rule of nobody". Within this context, she urged political action, emphasising each individual's personal responsibility.

How to get there: The square is located in the central Gries-San Quirino district and can be reached by bus number 8, among other options. The relief is also just a ten-minute walk from the Documentation Centre in the Victory Monument, which also tells the story of this period.