Ossario di Pocol
Monument · Dolomites
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The Ossario di Pocol is a war memorial holding the remains of 9,707 Italian soldiers, 4,455 of them unidentified, and 37 Austro-Hungarian dead from the Dolomite front of the First World War. Built by engineer Giovanni Raimondi between 1932 and 1935 and inaugurated in 1939, the 48-metre stone tower stands visible across the Ampezzo valley. A crypt at its center holds General Antonio Cantore, killed on the Tofane in 1915.
Before the tower, this was a simple wartime cemetery: the 5th Alpine group buried its dead here in 1916, on high ground near the Falzarego Pass at 1,535 metres. The shrine came later, built between 1932 and 1935 and inaugurated in 1939. The remains gathered here came from wartime cemeteries scattered across the Dolomite front, brought together years after the war had ended. General Antonio Cantore, entombed in the crypt at the tower's center, was awarded Italy's gold medal for military valor before his death on the Tofane in 1915.
What you see
A square stone tower rises on the hillside above Pocol, its rationalist facade carved with bas-relief panels.
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