ABSTRACT
Attitudes towards the material remains of the Great War in the Soca Valley have indeed changed dramatically. In May 1915, almost a year after the beginning of the Great War, a new European theatre of war opened. This new front line ran for almost 600 km along the border between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy. After the war, when the Soca Valley was annexed to Italy, the dead and the memory of the fallen represented the most important legacy of the conflict. The 1920s and 1930s were marked by reburials of fallen soldiers. Military cemeteries of the fallen on the Soca Front were catalogued at the end of 1970s by a Commission for the protection, adaptation, and maintenance of cemeteries and graves of fallen soldiers, although the first propositions for their renovations had been made in 1966.
