Monument to the Alpino

The Alpino Monument was commissioned by Angelo dal Prà, an Alpine soldier originally from the hamlet of Rovizza di Sirmione, who left for the Russian campaign in 1942 at the age of twenty.
Returning home after the painful experience at the front, he wanted to build the monument in memory of his comrades who fell during the Nikolaevka retreat in 1943, when around 40,000 men remained missing, dead or captured. Only a minimal percentage of these prisoners returned to Italy starting from 1945.
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