Memorials


Monte Grappa - Mountain top Grappa Shrine

REMARKS

Zone and ref. - Mount Grappa, BL 

Structure name – Mountain top Grappa Shrine 

Location – on top of Mount Grappa 

Building period - 1935 Building Entity – Commissariato generale onoranze caduti in guerra 

How to reach the structure – by car, SS47, then go to Romano d’Ezzelino and follow signage; or follow SS 141 Cadorna; park at lower parking and proceed on foot 

Visit times and contact organisation – always open

Remarks – 22190 soldiers are here buried, and so distributed:

  • North sector- austro hungarisch ossary, with 10295 soldiers (295 identified) please see separated file,
  • South sector, Italian ossary, with 12615 soldiers (2283 identified),
  • Along Via Eroica, 53 soldiers are buried (found after the ossary construction)
  • Between the two ossaries, there is the Via Eroica (300 m long), with 14 gravestones with the names of the battles mountains.
Also present are a museum, an excavated gallery and a place of refreshments.

The Defence Ministry has published an illustrative leaflet https://www.difesa.it/assets/allegati/26653/monte_grappa.pdf,