Live webcam on the Military Memorial of Asiago

Live view of the Leiten Military Memorial in Asiago

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LIVE WEBCAM WITH REAL-TIME VIEW OF THE ASIAGO OSSUARY

This webcam of Asiago.it offers an interesting view of the Military Memorial of Asiago and the wonderful landscape of the Leiten hill, from the top of which the structure dominates the whole city. 

The imposing ossuary stands at 1,058 meters above sea level and is one of the main military memorials of the Great War. Inside, in fact, the remains of 54,286 Italian and Austro-Hungarian fallen, who lost their lives on the plateau during the First World War, are buried: 34,286 bodies, of which 21,491 unknown, are of Italian soldiers, while the remaining 20,000, of which 11,762 are unnamed, are Austro-Hungarian.
The bodies come from 35 war cemeteries that existed before its construction on the Asiago Plateau.

Inaugurated in 1938 in the presence of King Vittorio Emanuele III, the Leiten Shrine was designed by the Venetian architect Orfeo Rossato. It consists of two main parts: the lower crypt, with a square base with a side of 80 meters, and the large upper triumphal arch , 47 meters high.

Inside the crypt, in the niches of the large perimeter and axial galleries, the remains of the known fallen are kept, whose names are engraved in alphabetical order on the individual niches. The bodies of unidentified soldiers, on the other hand, are collected in large common tombs in the galleries closest to the central votive chapel with an octagonal base, in which the remains of 12 soldiers decorated with the Gold Medal for Military Valor are buried. 

Near the entrance to the Crypt, there is the Museum of the Asiago Memorial, where it is possible to admire old war relics, from what were the main battlefields of the Plateau, as well as documents, testimonies and photographs of the time. The exhibition is divided into two different thematic parts: the first is dedicated to the first two years of the war, namely 1915 and 1916; the second, on the other hand, recalls the war events of the two-year period 1917-1918.

Exiting the outside of the crypt, you can access the upper part via a wide staircase, 35 meters wide. You will thus arrive at the vast terrace above, in the center of which rises for 47 meters the imposing triumphal arch of Roman architecture that characterizes the entire structure, with a votive altar placed in the middle.

From the terrace of the Asiago Shrine you can admire the places that, during the Great War, were the scene of bloody battles. Thanks to the indicator arrows placed on the parapet of the terrace, you can easily recognize the most important peaks, namely Pasubio  , Spitz di Tonezza, Monte Zebio, Monte Verena, Melette  di Gallio, Sisemol, Valbella, Monte Lemerle and the Monte Cengio.

From the square at the foot of the Military Memorial of the city of Asiago, it is possible to go along the suggestive Ferragh path, which winds eastwards through the fields and pastures of the Plateau and from which it is possible to admire the imposing military construction while walking in nature. Part of this path is also traveled during the traditional Great Rogation of Asiago, a journey of faith of about 33 km that every year involves the entire population of the plateau. 

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