Sacrario militare di Asiago | |
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Italy | |
For Italian and Austro-Hungarian soldiers who died on the battles on the Asiago plateau in World War I | |
Unveiled | 17 July 1938 (inaugurated) |
Designed by | Orfeo Rossato |
The Asiago War Memorial is a World War I memorial located in the town of Asiago in the Province of Vicenza in the Veneto region of northeast Italy. Surrounded by mountains that were the site of several World War I battles, the monument houses the remains of over 50,000 Italian and Austro-Hungarian soldiers and is a popular destination for travelers to the region. In Italian the memorial is typically called Sacrario Militare di Asiago or Sacrario Militare del Leiten. Leiten is the name of the hill on which the memorial sits.