The Grappa Mount War Memorial

“In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains….Troops went by the house and down the road and the dust they raised powdered the leaves of the trees”.

The above are the first lines of “A Farewell To Arms” by Ernest Hemingway, depicting the view from the house in Bassano where he used to live during the war. Bassano del Grappa was indeed on the front line, where thousands of soldiers lost their lives. On Mount Grappa we’ll visit their magnificent memorial, which shines surrounded by the impressive view of the mounts where the Great War eventually came to an end.