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Ossuary of Monte Cimone

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Ossuary of Monte Cimone

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Ossuary of Monte Cimone

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Location: Tonezza Del Cimone, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy

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1. Sentiero degli Alpini to Monte Cimone WWI Trail

10.8km

05:12

840m

Historic WWI trail through Alpine trenches, tunnels, and battlefields with stunning Veneto mountain views.

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2. Trail 542 from Arsiero to Monte Cimone Ossuary

8.17km

04:31

810m

Historic WWI trail through wartime tunnels and galleries to Monte Cimone's moving ossuary memorial.

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3. Witches' Bolgia WW1 – Ossuary of Monte Cimone loop from Tonezza del Cimone

11.5km

03:43

380m

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January 21, 2023

One of the four ossuaries dedicated to the Great War in the province of Vicenza and featured in its coat of arms: Pasubio, Cimone, Asiago, Grappa.

Mount Cimone was a crucial defensive bastion for the Italians, given its strategic and central position at the crossroads of the Astico and Posina Valleys, and its defense of the plain. For the same reason, it was a key point for the Austro-Hungarians to invade enemy territory. During the Strafexpedition of May 1916, the Imperial Army occupied the entire Tonezza Plateau and Mount Cimone, but the Italians managed to recapture it with a daring and unexpected feat, climbing the vertiginous southern face. The Austro-Hungarians decided to drive the enemy from the summit at all costs. Failing to do so with direct attacks, they constructed a mine tunnel, and on September 23, 1916, they detonated a gigantic quantity of explosives (14,000 kg), which shattered and shattered the summit, leaving a crater 50 meters in diameter and 22 meters deep, permanently changing the mountain's morphology. Enormous boulders were hurled into the sky, so high that some debris returned to the ground only three minutes after the explosion! The blast overwhelmed over 200 Italian soldiers (almost 300 according to other sources), some killed instantly, others buried alive under the rubble: the remains of at least ninety men, never recovered, still lie in the bowels of Cimone.

The enormous crater was located where the square now stands: the mountain ridge rose steadily to the summit where the ossuary now stands. The altar is carved from one of the extremely heavy stone blocks that flew dozens of meters into the air with the tremendous explosion; above it, the lantern was forged from iron scraps found on the battlefield; at its foot, the trapdoor was once a grate, into which visitors could throw the human bones found in the area after the war.

it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Cimone_di_Tonezza#Prima_guerra_mondiale
it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossario_del_monte_Cimone

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Bepin

July 3, 2024

Starting from the small church of S. Rocco di Arsiero, along beautiful paths you arrive at Mount Cimone. Excellent panorama and theater of great battles.

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Francesco

July 27, 2023

Legs are shaking! Place of respect with an important panorama

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Location: Tonezza Del Cimone, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy

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Ossuary of Monte Cimone

1. Sentiero degli Alpini to Monte Cimone WWI Trail

2. Trail 542 from Arsiero to Monte Cimone Ossuary

3. Witches' Bolgia WW1 – Ossuary of Monte Cimone loop from Tonezza del Cimone

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