Surroundings

About 8,000 visitors each year visit the Ossuary Temple: a monumental church inaugurated in May 1934. The works began in September 1908 but had to stop due to the outbreak of the First World War. Unfinished until 1930, thanks to an agreement between the parish and the Ministry of Defense, it was decided to use it as a military shrine in addition to the city's cathedral. Inside are buried 5405 soldiers from all over Italy, of which over 200 decorated with silver or bronze medals for military valor, who died in hospitals all over again, for which all names and surnames are known. The bodies of four officers decorated with gold medals are also kept, the remains of Prince Umberto di Savoia-Aosta, Count of Salemi, nephew of the first king of Italy Vittorio Emanuele II and brother of the Duke of Aosta and 87 between military (dead in Germany and Russia) and civilians who died under the bombing in Bassano (transferred from the local cemetery of Santa Croce). The temple, built in Venetian Gothic style, with traces of Romanesque, stands on a base of seven steps in white stone from Pove del Grappa, surmounted by an octagonal dome flanked by two sixty-meter bell towers. The facade is divided by two pilasters into three compartments, rising to a height of 28 meters, surmounted by a stone cross. Over the main door is a rose window with a diameter of about 10 meters, made of San Gottardo stone and two minor rose windows above the side doors. Above the central door is the image of the Redeemer, while in the lunette on the left is depicted Saint Bassiano, patron saint of the city, and in the one on the right the blessed Giovanna Maria Bonomo. The temple with a Latin cross plan, measures 75 m in length and 37 m in width and, at the transept, 43 m, with a total area of about 1400 square meters.

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Piazzale Cadorna