Sacrario militare di Asiago
Large ossuary of the First World War on the Leiten hill, with a crypt, a panoramic terrace and a small military history museum of the Altopiano.
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About the museum
The shrine stands on the Leiten hill, which overlooks the town of Asiago, in memory of the fighting that between 1915 and 1918 made the Altopiano dei Sette Comuni one of the main theatres of the war. It was inaugurated on 17 July 1938 and is built of local white marble, with works by the sculptors Montini and Zanetti. The building has a square base and, above the crypt, a large terrace with a four-faced arch 47 metres high; on the parapet, arrows indicate the most important places of fighting.
In the crypt, with galleries along the perimeter and axial corridors converging on an octagonal votive chapel, rest more than 54,000 fallen soldiers of the First World War, Italian and Austro-Hungarian, some identified and placed in individual niches, others unknown and gathered in common graves, together with three fallen soldiers of the Second World War. Among the identified fallen are twelve recipients of the Gold Medal of Military Valour.
Near the entrance to the crypt, two rooms house a small historical museum: the left-hand section illustrates events in the mountain sector from the Adige to the Brenta in 1915–1916, the right-hand section the period 1917–1918, with reference to the fighting on the Pasubio, the logistical organisation and the Battle of the Ortigara. War relics, documents and photographs accompany the account.
Key themes
- Crypt with the remains of more than 54,000 Italian and Austro-Hungarian fallen soldiers
- Panoramic terrace with a four-faced arch 47 metres high
- Historical museum with war relics and photographs of the Great War
- Octagonal votive chapel
- View over the Altopiano di Asiago
Permanent exhibition
- Museo storico militare – Two rooms with war relics, documents and photographs on the battles fought on the Altopiano between 1915 and 1918.
- Founded
- 1936
- Operated by
- Commissariato generale per le onoranze ai caduti (Ministero della Difesa)
Admission & discounts
Admission is free.
Admission to the shrine and the museum is free.
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Plan your visit
| Good to know | Documentaries about the First World War are screened in an external room (information from a Ministry of Defence guide of 1997). |
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