Surroundings

On the summit of Mount Grappa there is one of the main military ossuaries of the First World War: the Monumental Memorial of Monte Grappa. Designed by the same architect of the military shrine of Redipuglia, Giovanni Greppi and by the sculptor Giannino Castiglioni, the works began in 1932 and the shrine was inaugurated on 22 September 1935. Formed by a series of semicircular steps that descend on the slope that leads from the road to the top of the shrine. In the shrine rest the remains of 22,950 soldiers: in the north sector, the Austro-Hungarian ossuary with 10,295 dead of which 295 identified, in the south sector, the Italian ossuary with 12,615 dead of which 2,283 identified. In the shrine there is the tomb of the marshal of Italy, general Gaetano Giardino who commanded the 4th army of the Grappa leading it to the final victory, whose statue (about 4 meters high) scrutinizing Monte Grappa and Valsugana is located at the end of the avenue delle Fosse, in the heart of Bassano del Grappa.