It rises at the top of the Grappa massif at an altitude of 1,776. The entire building lies, linear and imposing, on the ridge of the summit of which corrects the rugged natural profile.
It was built in 1935, designed by architect Giovanni Greppi and sculptor Giannino Castiglioni. The architecture, inspired by the art of military fortification, exalts the mysticism of the place with its geometric masses rising to the sky.
The central body of the monument, the one where the Mortal Remains of 12,615 war victims are kept, of which 10,332 Unknown, consists of five concentric circles, degrading to a truncated cone; each circle is four meters high and circumscribed by a circular shelf ten wide.
The Remains of the 2,283 identified Fallen are arranged in alphabetical order and kept in niches covered by bronze slabs where the name and the military decors of the Fallen are engraved.
Those of the 10,332 Unknown are collected in larger common urns that alternate with individual tombs. The five groups are connected by a large central staircase with five ramps that leads from the base of the monument to the top where the sacello, Sanctuary of the Madonnina del Grappa rises.
From the square of the temple winds, like a white carpet in square stone of Grappa, the Via Eroica that runs for 250 meters to the Portal Rome between two rows of stone stones in which they are carved, the names of the localities linked to the most famous armed acts of the battles of Grappa.
Between the 4th and the 5th of these walls, in a central position, at the top of the monumental staircase that leads to the top of the monument, is the tomb of Italy’s Marshal Gaetano Giardino, who before dying (in 1935) had expressed the desire to be buried there among his soldiers, of the 4th Army, which went down in history as “ARMATA DEL GRAPPA”.
