Descrizione
The monumental work, built in 1935 on a project by the engineer Giovanni Raimondi, consists of a grandiose square tower 48 meters high, with a two-tiered base that encloses the real Memorial, in which the remains of Italian fallen are collected. , known and unknown, coming from the various war cemeteries of Cadore and Ampezzano.
In the crypt below the entrance floor, in the center of the tower, in a sepulchral monument depicting the 'Dead Infantryman', there are the tombs of General Antonio Cantore and Captain Francesco Barbieri, both decorated with a Gold Medal for Military Valor .
On the floor above there are the tombs of two other heroic fallen, also decorated with the Gold Medal for Military Valor: Lieutenant Mario Fusetti, hero of Sasso Stria, and Captain Baiardi, who also fell as a hero in command of the his company in Cima Sief.
In niches arranged along the perimeter walls of the internal corridors are kept the remains of the known and unknown fallen. The entrance to the monumental area is flanked by stone busts depicting 'Alpine guards' taken from the marble group of the monument to Gen. Cantore in Cortina d'Ampezzo. In the center of the square behind it was placed the artistic fountain with the sculpted effigy of the lion of St. Mark, transferred from an ancient square in Cortina.
To the right of the same square, there is the suggestive small church built in 1916 by the Alpine troops of the 5th Group as a chapel of the war cemetery that once existed in the same place among the green of the woods. The access stairway, carved into the rock, is flanked by the bronze tables of the Via Crucis by Giannino Castiglioni.
The Memorial was built by the State on land owned by the 'Ampezzo Rules', and is granted for use by the General Commissariat of Honor for the Fallen in War.