The horse’s equipment, the hero’s clothes and his harness were crafted in great detail, rendering the information gathered by the sculptor from books, paintings and other historical sources
The 1821 brass equestrian effigy of the great hero, Georgiou Karaiskakiswas crafted, according to the elements of the Cultural Guide edited by the City Museum of the Municipality of Karditsa by sculptor Nikolitsa-Lito Leonti, daughter of the well-known sculptor Efstathios Leontis, after a pan-Hellenic art competition that started in 2010, at the initiative of the then mayor of Karditsa, Domenikos Verillis, and co-financed by the municipality, the Region of Thessaly, the PED of Thessaly and the holy metropolis of Thessaliotida and Fanariofersalon. It was installed in the central square of the city of Karditsa in 2017.
As emphasized to the Athenian-Macedonian News Agency, Dr. Fotini Lekka, scientific manager of the Museum City of the Municipality of Karditsa, the sculpture represents the hero in the last battle of his life and expresses with great fidelity the tension and agony of the horse, but also the determination of the hero himself to fight the enemy, although he was already seriously ill. His look shows that he has already passed to the opposite bank of the Acheron, but his soul supports until the last moment the struggle of his whole life.
The horse’s equipment, the hero’s clothes and his harness were crafted in great detail, rendering the information the sculptor gathered from books, paintings and other historical sources.
The central square was the heart of the shopping center and the preeminent place for public spectacles and social gatherings of the city.
According to the above guide, from “market square” it was renamed Eleftheria Square, when Thessaly was annexed to the Greek state, in 1881. It is located on the axis, which connected Fanari, the administrative seat of the region in the Ottoman years, with Larissa , capital of Thessaly.
Its aligned horseshoe-shaped configuration with the multi-arched arcades of the shops, was one of the first projects built based on the 1884 urban plan.
The square, Ms. Lekka also emphasizes, has received many interventions from time to time. The interwar cement statues of the 4 Muses have been moved from Omonia Square in the 1950s. The imposing fountain, a recent work of the sculptor Nella Gollanda, is a modern “city compass” made of steel, with symbols inspired by the Neolithic civilization.
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