The four houses
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“My house, the house where I was not born, and which the ancestors had built five centuries ago, was at the centre of the village and cornered a... Read more →
La Piazza
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“They had rebuilt the town by then, with just a few shacks left standing. The new town hall, all done in pink marble, was waiting for Prince... Read more →
The four larches
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“…Tired of playing we lie at the foot of the Four Larches and loudly we read books of adventure. Each of us was a character: Corsaro Verde,... Read more →
Sacrario
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“In the spring of 1932, work started on the “Ossario” or “bone” monument, it was going up on the Laiten Hills, east of town, were the bombed-out... Read more →
The airport
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They knocked down the houses in the Micheloni district, the engineer’s farmhouse, the dairy cooperative; then they started levelling out... Read more →
Il monte Katz
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“In the afternoon he has climbed up Monte Katz, then from the Gharto woods he had dragged over the snow, a little below the cross, a big pile of... Read more →
Sant’Antonio (St. Anthony)
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“Each morning, when there was enough light along the gravel muletracks, the silent line of recuperanti would climb up to the trenches. The... Read more →
Monte Zebio
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Walking along the Austrian mule-track they arrived where in June 1917 the mine that had changed the face of the mountain and buried the Italian... Read more →
Zocchi
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“One afternoon I was roaming through pastures and hills with my dog, and when we reached the neighbourhood of the Stöcke hamlet I put the leash... Read more →
Pöslen
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No, this is not the story of two lovers. Neither of a limited company. But only that of two tawny-coated hound dogs. They lived till some time... Read more →
Barental
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“From the Billeraut I take the route of the Barental, into the wood along an old road. (…) Every few metres I find a memory. From Luka we could... Read more →
Mazze – Prà del Giglio
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“They went that way, in lines. The father before, who led Reno by reins; then Matteo, grandpa, Nina and her mother. They took the path that... Read more →
Sasso – Stoccareddo – Buso
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“In one corner of the Plateau, around the fifteenth century, a rather strange people settled and for character and customs they little resembled... Read more →
Val d’Assa
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“Among the stones, broken arches, pieces of scale, bell-pins, he also saw bells’ fragments. He picked one up. It was heavy and it had friezes of... Read more →
Osteria “Al Termine”
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“It is so quiet now! It is the moment when the wood around makes you feel the sigh of the wind that moves the branches waiting for the snow. That... Read more →
Galmarara – Malga Portule
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“We arrived to a malga where, in the heart of winter, I had found shelter for the night when I was a boy and I ran away from home for a slap I... Read more →
Cima Portule
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“He has been for a winter on the top of that mountain, where are still the remains of his shed, the excavations of the shelters, the basements of... Read more →
Malga del Dosso – Manazzo
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“After the curve there was the road that led to the Val Renzola, and here there were the springs which provided fresh and welling water to the... Read more →
Monte Ortigara /1
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“At an altitude of 2003 metres the Austrian trenches begin, the first taken by assault by the Bassano; it was here that two years ago I picked up... Read more →
Monte Ortigara /2
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“One day in May 1920, three young men went up the Ortigara through the Sentiero del Civeron first and the Passo di Val Caldiera then. Arriving... Read more →
Cima XII
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“Ma era pur sempre la Cima XII, la più alta di tutte, che da ragazzo pensavo di salire (...)
Era il 1936 e non avevo ancora 15 anni; in due... Read more →
Malga Fossetta – Castelloni – Cima Isidoro
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“We examined the narrow gorge where the partisans of Roana had leaped (after the flight they were saved because in that year there was a lot of... Read more →
Piana di Marcesina
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“But will there still be lovers that in a winter’s night get carried on a sled pulled by a generous horse through the plain of Marcesina soaked... Read more →
Monte Fior – Castelgomberto
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“Austrians and Bosnians, supported by three hundred and fifty guns, attacked the Nodo delle Melette to circumvent the defenses of Monte Grappa... Read more →
The grave
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“In the last days of October, in the afternoon just returned from school, instead of going up to the roccoli (…) we went in small crowds to... Read more →
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