We went to the Military Memorial to honor fallen to nearly 100,000 contained within. We wanted to thank and remember all the soldiers who gave their lives to defend our beloved Italy, our homeland. We sang along to the laugh! Thousands of Italian civilians and former soldiers, young and old, united by the Tricolor, while below us paraded a number of companies of all armed forces and the Guardia di Finanza.
The Military Memorial of Redipuglia shrine is the largest Italian military and one of the world's largest, was built by the architect Giovanni Greppi and sculptor Giannino Castiglioni. Opened in 1938, contains the bodies of 100,000 dead of the Great War. Located within the municipal area of \u200b\u200bFogliano Redipuglia in the province of Gorizia.
The work, carried out on the slopes of Monte Sei Busi, top bitterly contested in the first phase of the Great War, looks like a military deployment at the base with the tomb of the Duke of Aosta, Commander of 3rd Army, which are those of the wing his generals. Fencing
symbolically the entrance to the shrine at the foot of the monumental staircase, a large chain that still belonged to torpedo degree. Just beyond, relax with a gentle slope a large square, paved with stone Karst, crossed the center line on its "Way Eroica," which runs between two rows of bronze plates, 19 per side, each one inscribed with the name a location where it was most bitter and bloody struggle. Down the Via Eroica rises solemnly up the steps it contains, in alphabetical order from bottom to top, the remains of 40,000 fallen known and whose names appear in individual plaques engraved bronze. A grand staircase, made up of 22 steps which are aligned on the graves of the fallen, the front and at the base of which stands, isolated that of the Duke d'Aosta, commander of the 3rd Army, flanked by urns of his generals who fell in combat, is similar to the powerful and perfect alignment of an entire large units of a hundred thousand soldiers. The Duke of Aosta, who died in 1931, his will was buried here to rest forever among his soldiers. The tomb is cut from a slab of porphyry, weighing 75 tons. Here are the steps laid out twenty-two dead bodies of the 39,857 identified. In the last steps, in two large graves on either side of the votive chapel, lie the remains of 60,330 fallen unknown.
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