place

Cima Palon

Military history of Italy during World War IMountains of ItalyMountains of VenetoMountains of the AlpsVicentine Alps
Monte Pasubio
Monte Pasubio

Cima Palon, also called Monte Pasubio, is the highest peak of the Pasubio group of Little Dolomites in Veneto, Italy. It has an elevation of 2,239 metres.The Pasubio plateau is one of the most relevant Little Dolomites massifs, and it held a high strategic role during the Great War (1914-1918), since it represented the last defensive position of the Venetian Plain. It was the site of fierce mine warfare on the Italian Front. In May 1916, after the Austro-Hungarian Strafexpedition, an Italian contingent was urgently transferred from the Isonzo Front and under the command of General Achille Papa, they stopped the Austro-Hungarian Army at Cima Palon.In 1917, a team of Italian miners built the Strada delle 52 Gallerie, the route of 52 tunnels, which leads from the base to the summit area of Monte Pasubio.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Cima Palon (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Cima Palon
Galleria Papa, Trambileno

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Cima PalonContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 45.792013888889 ° E 11.176486111111 °
placeShow on map

Address

Galleria Papa

Galleria Papa
Trambileno
Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy
mapOpen on Google Maps

Monte Pasubio
Monte Pasubio
Share experience

Nearby Places

Valmorbia works
Valmorbia works

The Valmorbia Works, also known as Fort Pozzacchio, represented the last permanent fortification built by Austria-Hungary on the Italian front. Valmorbia is built at an altitude of 882 metres (2,894 ft) above sea level. The fort was partially built on the slopes of Monte Pasubio between 1909 and the outbreak of hostilities with Italy in May 1915. Like many other forts of the time, it was made mostly of rock and the rest concrete. Since water was hard to obtain, an intricate system for collecting water was built so that every drop went into a storage tank. The fort has two levels connected by a concrete staircase; in addition, a third level was sketched out but never built. There is a road rising from the commune of Vallarsa and passing through two tunnels, one of which is equipped with a rearguard station for defending the access road. The rearguard had a heavy iron door that could block off the route to the fort. In 1913, a cable car station was built to facilitate the movement of construction supplies for the fort. A small-gauge railway was additionally built to rapidly move supplies up and down the mountain. Like all Austro-Hungarian fortifications constructed since the turn of the century, the fort was built to withstand indirect fire from howitzers and even 305 mm guns, the largest at the time. At the time that hostilities broke out only a few components of the fort were completed, most notably the moat surrounding the works. Additionally, two 10 cm cannons were supposed to be placed in rotating armored domes, but these were never installed or delivered.