Presentation of the book "churches and Peoples of Venice in the great war", Asiago, January 4, 2017

Among the many initiatives in commemoration of the centenary of the great war, Asiago certainly forgot to mention what was once a date definitely dramatic: the bombing of May 28, 1916 and the subsequent fall in austro-Hungarian hands during the so-called Strafexpedition.

It did exactly 100 years later with a conference entitled "the churches and Peoples of Venice in the great war", the proceedings of which have now become a valuable book published by Viella to be presented Wednesday, January 4, at 17.30, in the headquarters of Montana, in piazza Stazione 1.

The initiative, once again, of theMontana Union Dear of the seven municipalities and theInstitute of history of Vicenza which will bring in some of the authors of those interventions collected today, Bain and Tim ball, who will join Filiberto Agostini, Banahene and Luigi Menegatti, Highland history scholars who provided many materials with particular attention to the exodus of the civilian population.

Employment following the Strafexpedition, in fact, gave rise to an immediate evacuation of people in stages involved the Valdastico motorway, Treviso and the Brenta Valley, the Valsugana, the whole Friuli. A humanitarian tragedy affecting, in essence, the Tre Venezie and not surprisingly, the research was funded by the Veneto region, which will be represented at the Conference by the President of the Regional Council of Veneto, Roberto Ciambetti, whose surgery is scheduled immediately after the greetings of the local authorities.