Museo del Sacrario Militare di Redipuglia

Museum of Italy's largest military shrine, in Fogliano Redipuglia, with memorabilia, documents and reconstructions of First World War positions; free admission.

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About the museum

The Sacrario militare di Redipuglia, on the slope of a Karst hill, was designed by a working group led by the sculptor Giannino Castiglioni and the architect Giovanni Greppi, and inaugurated on 18 September 1938. It is Italy's largest military shrine: a flight of 22 steps of white Karst stone, each bearing the word “Presente”, holds the remains of tens of thousands of soldiers who fell in the First World War, among them the commander of the Third Army, Duke Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy-Aosta.

The museum, linked to the shrine and run by the Commissariato generale per le onoranze ai caduti, collects war materials, memorabilia and photographic, film and paper documentation on the Great War, and in particular on the Italian front. The route also includes reconstructions of military positions.

A visit to the shrine and the museum offers a chance to get to know the Karst landscape of the Isonzo, the scene of the Isonzo battles, and to reflect on the memory of the fallen. In the votive chapel and the adjoining rooms, personal objects belonging to Italian and Austro-Hungarian soldiers are also preserved.

Key themes

Italy's largest military shrine, with a flight of 22 steps
War materials and memorabilia of the First World War
Photographic, film and paper documentation on the Italian front
Reconstructions of military positions
Tomb of the Duke of Aosta at the base of the monument

Permanent exhibition

Museo della Grande Guerra – War materials, memorabilia, documents and reconstructions of military positions on the First World War and the Italian front.

Operated by: Commissariato generale per le onoranze ai caduti – Ministero della Difesa