A small square, located between Via Emilia and Piazza Grande, features the Ghirlandina tower, while at its center stands the statue of Alessandro Tassoni, a Modenese poet and writer best known for his work "La secchia rapita" (The Stolen Bucket).

At the base of the Ghirlandina, we find the Sacrario, a memorial with photographs of Modenese soldiers who fell during the war of liberation against Nazi fascism. A plaque also commemorates some of the events that took place in Modena during the period of Italian unification.

On the side of the Palazzo Comunale (City Hall) facing the square, two plaques are placed. One commemorates the Italian Military Internees, while the other, entitled "Al Tvajol ed Furmajin", remembers the Modenese publisher Angelo Fortunato Formiggini, known as "Furmajin", who committed suicide by jumping from the Ghirlandina in 1938 as an extreme act of protest against the enactment of racial laws.