Il forte Wohlgemuth di Rivoli Veronese

FORTE WOHLGEMUTH is managed by the Friends of the Fort Association -TEL 380 633 7903

Among the many fortifications in the Verona area, none is as extraordinary as the Fort of Rivoli (Werk Wohlgemuth, 1854), for its absolute landscape pre-eminence as well as its perfect architectural style, in addition to its building quality.

Placed on a high rock spur sheer on the Adige, dominating the road to Brennero, the Fort was requested by the field marshal Radetzky after 1848. Together with other three major works on the opposite side of the valley - the Hlavaty Fort (Ceraino), the Mollinary Fort (Monte), the railway and road cut into the mountain gorge - the Fort of Rivoli was part of the Alto Adige military roadblock system.
The commander of the Hapsburg proposed once again the ancient role of the Chiusa Veneta, historic access connecting the German world to the Mediterranean (i.e. between central Europe and northern Italy). Designed for war purposes, the Fort nowadays meets the visitor as incomparable evidence of an art long dead: the art of fortification building. No longer needed in peaceful times, it has been converted into a center hosting cultural associations and activities.

It is perhaps the best viewpoint from which to admire the surrounding landscape. Its dominant position, in origin dictated by strict artillery rules, makes it the perspective centre form which radiate unlimited views towards the morainic landscape, the mountains and the gorge through which the Adige river flows