The places of memory: Bari military shrine. Italy

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At a gray April 25 we decided to revise our recent history by visiting a place very important even if some 'triste.Nella city of BARI, in the district Japigia, lies one of the treasures most' important of our history: the Shrine Military of Caduti overseas. Opened December 10 1967.
The structure housing the remains of over 70,000 Italian soldiers killed in a foreign land.
E 'are gathered here that the bodies of fallen soldiers in Greece, Albania, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Germany and the Mediterranean Sea, First and Second World War, to the front or in captivity. Of these forty thousand dead unfortunately remained unknown.
E 'a plaque with the names of 140 Eritrean and Libyan Ascari whose remains already buried in the shrine of Tripoli were ridislocati from that cemetery, in BARI in 1972.
The shrine was designed and built by Lt. Col. of Engineers guastatori Alpine Paolo Caccia Dominioni of Sillavengo. The complex is composed of a huge porch with a staircase for access beyond which lies the Historical Museum that recalls briefly the various stages of the Second World War, and where they are collected numerous documents, photographs, sketches, uniforms, weapons, relics and effects personal.
Every day at sunset, nine solemn tolling of a bell, donated to the Shrine from all associations and weapon combattentistiche remind all live Caduti, as recorded in his bronze " vivimus Vict.