Ossario di Custoza

With the military campaign of 1848, the Sardo-Piedmontese army and that of 1866, the army of the Kingdom of Italy faced the neighboring Austrian empire to expand the territory of the nascent Italian nation.

Known as the first and third wars of independence, the operations developed in the hinterland of Garda on a predominantly hilly terrain and culminated in the two battles of Custoza, fought in July 1848 and on 24 June 1866. In 1877, almost 2000 remains of soldiers who had fallen in battle and were previously buried in mass graves were exhumed and collected in the ossuary, designed to become a place of patriotic memory and secular worship, inaugurated on 24 June 1879.

In addition to the crypt, which collects the bones of the soldiers, the monument also houses a chapel and a small archaeological museum of the battle, where the objects extracted from the ground during the exhumation of the bodies are exposed.
 
The exhibition rooms set up in the former house of the caretaker at the time of the construction of the monument complete and integrate the visit.

The small spaces envelop the visitor allowing, also through multimedia installations, a total immersion in the story told.