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Stelvio, the memory of the glaciers: the finds of the Great War resurface
The Great War in Alta Valtellina was fought - between the summer of 1914 and the end of 1918 - by Italians and Austrians among the peaks of the Ortles Cevedale, in mountains often above 3,000 [...]
The Great Tin War, interview with the historian Giovanni Dalle Fusine
Objects as guardians of memory, as witnesses of a tragic era in which a simple can of tin could make the difference between hunger and survival, between life and death. With Giovanni Dalle [...]
Loris Giuratti
Meet Loris Giuriatti, author of the column "Great War", one of the greatest connoisseurs and scholars of events and stories that really happened during the First World War, on Monte Grappa.
A history lesson on Monte Grappa with metal detector
Stop the usual lessons in classroom, the teachers sitting behind the chair and space for historical simulations in the field "if I have to explain to the boys the great war books are not enough"..
When the refrigerator created unemployment
History of when the invention of the refrigerator created unemployment Welcome back friends! Tell me a little, in this hot summer who among us has never wanted a nice lemon granita or perhaps, [...]
The Angels of Mons
Welcome friends! Today I want to tell you a story of a hot summer a hundred years ago. Almost all, reasoning by clichés, we associate the past times with the cold season, for us generation [...]
For military research, choose the legendary compact and indestructible C.SCOPE
The legendary C.SCOPE, the "No-Motion" metal detectors for military research One of the most long-lived and legendary metal detector lines on the world market comes from the United Kingdom: the [...]
Ettore Viola Count of Ca Tasson
"My Hector" This is how Countess Palma Viola di Ca Tasson always begins her stories when she talks about her husband. She, seductive Sicilian teacher, "her Ettore" meets him after the Second [...]
Piero dei Lugari
Piero has lived all his life in the mountains. Even when he was old he had to adapt to the life of the plains, as soon as the thaw allowed it, he was accompanied up there on his Grappa. I met [...]
The voice of the mountain
When the tourist comes up to us, he usually has the impression that the mountain is left to itself and that no one has control over it. It's not like that. Those who live up here have always [...]
Viola's fever
Just a century ago, year plus year less, the world was literally brought to its knees by one of the most terrible pandemics ever: the Spanish flu or Spanish fever. Do not worry friends, it is [...]
Christmas 1914
Christmas is approaching and with the occasion I want to tell you a story that speaks of the Holy Day. 25 December 1914, Western Front. The German fury has clashed with the solid resistance [...]
The Moro Frun
Here we have the "mende", which in Italian can be translated as family nicknames. Frun was the menda given to the Faccin, a family of Borso del Grappa, a quiet village at the foot of the [...]
Cartuccia
Last time I told you about Mario, the recoverer who died of war ten years after the end of the war. Today I will tell you about the Cartuccia. We understood that the recoverers, without [...]
Mario's history
Mario was born up there on that mountain. As a child he had taken the cows to pasture, then he had shot the strips, then he had returned to the Marisa his wife when the strips had returned to [...]