Designed by an artist from Santa Cruz do Sul called Hildo Müller, the monument is a tribute to the immigrants who colonized the city. The Square in which the monument stands is named after the artist.

The work of art is located at the junction of Marechal Floriano Street and Galvão Costa Street, in downtown Santa Cruz do Sul.

The mosaic panel, measuring eleven meters wide by three meters high, is made up of hundreds of shards of tiles that were shaped with a bolt cuttler and an emery machine. It was inaugurated in 1969 and has engraved in it the date of the foundation of the colony in 1849, and also the names of the first settlers.

In 1994 the square that houses the monument underwent renovations and the construction of a fountain.

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