Qualla: National Monument to the Immigrant https://qualla.com/national-monument-to-the-immigrant en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:58 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/f/g/d/national-monument-to-the-immigrant-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: National Monument to the Immigrant https://qualla.com/national-monument-to-the-immigrant National Monument to the Immigrant: Introduction https://qualla.com/national-monument-to-the-immigrant/ Photo credit Tetraktys, CC BY 3.0. A farmer, his wife, and a child in her arms stand cast in bronze at the entrance to Caxias do Sul, where the BR-116 highway brings travelers into the city. About 4.5 meters tall and weighing nearly three tons, the figures gaze outward with the particular expression of people who have arrived somewhere and decided to stay. The sculptor Antonio Caringi called his winning design Nova Patria - new homeland. It is a fitting name for a work that started out honoring one group of newcomers and ended up honoring them all.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/f/g/d/national-monument-to-the-immigrant-wp/6fgd-national-monument-to-the-immigrant-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full National Monument to the Immigrant: A Sculptor of the Pampas https://qualla.com/national-monument-to-the-immigrant/ Photo credit Ricardo630, CC BY-SA 4.0. Antonio Caringi was born in Pelotas in 1905 and came of age studying his craft far from home. In 1928 he entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, the only Brazilian then studying sculpture there, and he returned to Rio Grande do Sul with European technique and a stubbornly loc...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/f/g/d/national-monument-to-the-immigrant-wp/6fgd-national-monument-to-the-immigrant-a-sculptor-of-the-pampas.mp3 0:06 2 full National Monument to the Immigrant: From Italian to National https://qualla.com/national-monument-to-the-immigrant/ Photo credit Câmara Municipal de Novo Hamburgo, CC BY 2.0. The monument's meaning shifted before it was even finished. Its cornerstone was laid in 1950 by President Eurico Gaspar Dutra, and as construction proceeded, a 1953 law redefined the project: it would no longer honor only the Italians, but every ethnic group that had helped settl...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/f/g/d/national-monument-to-the-immigrant-wp/6fgd-national-monument-to-the-immigrant-from-italian-to-national.mp3 0:06 3 full National Monument to the Immigrant: The Crypt Beneath https://qualla.com/national-monument-to-the-immigrant/ Photo credit Public domain. Behind the bronze couple rises an obelisk worked in bas-relief, its panels telling the story in symbols: land claimed, land cultivated, civil and military forces joined under divine protection, and the date 1875 - the year Caxias was founded. Below the sculpture lies something mo...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/f/g/d/national-monument-to-the-immigrant-wp/6fgd-national-monument-to-the-immigrant-the-crypt-beneath.mp3 0:06 4 full National Monument to the Immigrant: The People in the Bronze https://qualla.com/national-monument-to-the-immigrant/ Photo credit Ricardo André Frantz (User:Tetraktys), CC BY-SA 3.0. It helps to remember who the farming couple stands for. Beginning in 1875, Italian immigrants arrived in the Serra Gaucha with little, sent to settle rugged highland forest that the government had promised to help clear and largely did not. They felled the trees, planted the vine...

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