{"id":5536,"date":"2021-12-14T14:27:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T13:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avgg.provincia.vicenza.it\/history\/"},"modified":"2023-02-16T13:46:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T12:46:56","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/avgg.provincia.vicenza.it\/en\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"

HISTORY<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

1915-1918<\/span><\/strong>
\nThe Great War<\/span><\/strong><\/h1><\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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HISTORY<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The war years<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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The Vicenza foothills were marked by the dramatic events of the First World War: we can still see the scars on the land, witnesses to the sacrifice of thousands of young soldiers ignorant of the reason for these ferocious battles that led to the total destruction of villages and hamlets and created the social phenomenon of the refugee<\/strong>, since their inhabitants were forced to leave their homes and seek comfort elsewhere.<\/p>\n

This geographically homogeneous area was the only one in the entire front line to suffer the fate of a state of uninterrupted belligerence, becoming the scene of some of the bloodiest battles fought during the \u201cspring offensive\u201d, better known under the name of Strafexpedition<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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1915<\/h2><\/div><\/div>
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May 1915 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Italy enters the war against Austro-Hungary; <\/span><\/p>\n

the war of the forts and the Italian occupation of Monte Pasubio <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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1916<\/h2><\/div><\/div>
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15 May 1916<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Strafexpedition commences on the Vicenza plateaux <\/span><\/p>\n

June 1916 <\/strong><\/p>\n

The offensive is contained at the edges of the Vicenza plain<\/span><\/p>\n

23 July 1916 <\/strong><\/p>\n

The Italians regain Monte Cimone<\/span><\/p>\n

23 September 1916<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mine on Monte Cimone and the Austro-Hungarians reconquer Monte Cimone<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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1917<\/h2><\/div><\/div>
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October 1917 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Retreat to the Piave and the Battle of Caporetto<\/span><\/p>\n

November 1917<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Austro-Hungarians are stopped from the Piave to Monte Grappa <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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1918<\/h2><\/div><\/div>
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15 June 1918 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Battle of the Solstice on Monte Grappa <\/span><\/p>\n

October 1918 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Italian offensive on Monte Grappa <\/span><\/p>\n

23 October 1918 <\/strong><\/p>\n

The last battle \u2013 Vittorio Veneto <\/span><\/p>\n

4 November 1918 <\/strong><\/p>\n

The armistice is signed at Villa Giusti in Padua <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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1921<\/h2><\/div><\/div>
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1921<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Unknown Soldier<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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HISTORY \/ MEMORIALS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The War Memorials<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The four war memorials are structures that gather together the fallen<\/strong> (known and unknown) of the Italian and Austro-Hungarian armies: they are symbols of our freedom and repositories of remembrance and are also a warning not to repeat useless and inhuman barbarity of this kind.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

DISCOVER THE WAR MEMORIALS<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>