Redipuglia war memorial (mausoleum) built

1938 CE.

Shown on the map at 45.852°, 13.490°.

The Redipuglia War Memorial (Italian: Sacrario militare di Redipuglia) is a World War I memorial located on the Karst Plateau near the village of Fogliano Redipuglia, in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of northeastern Italy. It is the largest war memorial in Italy and one of the largest in the world, housing the remains of 100,187 Italian soldiers killed between 1915 and 1917 in the twelve battles fought on the Karst and Isonzo front.

Text from the Wikipedia article Redipuglia War Memorial, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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