The overhanging on mount Cengio.

The last bulwark against the breakage of the Austrian army towards the Venetian plain during the Strafexpedition, Monte Cengio (Mount Cengio, 1354 metres) overhangs the high Venetian plain about a thousand metres above the Val d’Astico. Until June 3, 1916 it was strenuously defended by the Brigata Granatieri di Sardegna (Grenadiers of Sardinia Brigade), who were decimated by the Austrian gunfire and forced to give up their positions, but inflicting such heavy losses to the enemy to prevent it from continuing its run towards the plain. Of the ten thousand grenadiers sent on the Plateau to hinder the Austrians, only just over a thousand survived. To celebrate their heroism, the cliff over the Val d’Astico was renamed “Salto dei Granatieri” (Drop of the Grenadiers) and the entire area was declared “ Fatherland’s sacred area.” “We were calm,” Giani Stuparich, which on the Cengio lost his brother Carlo, wrote in his “La guerra del ’15” (The 1915 War). “In every bruise-furrowed face you could read a desperate firmness: die.” Today the mule road of the entrenchment allows an extraordinary vision of the plain below. To the fallen a small church and a statue built with shells’ fragments are dedicated. The proximity to the Costo main road and the comfort of the access way make the mountain one of the most popular destinations for war tourism.