Italy 110 - Solferino San Martino , a bloody battle, a tower and an ossuary
May 12th 2016 After a peaceful and lovely visit to Soave. Our next visit was one of complete contrast. War and its consequences. In our own country we stop at small and large war memorials erected by a grateful community to honour its war dead. We do the same at small villages in France and Belgium. We have stopped at the Menin Gate for the nightly ceremony of the playing of the Last Post. We have visited huge
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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more 
