ABSTRACT
Conflict landscapes and battle zones of the Soca Front share the historical origin, but can have very different social lives. This chapter discusses Mt Rombon and Kolovrat and their social lives from the beginning of the conflict in 1915 until the present. Due to their geographical location, their historical importance, and their social perception, one became a landscape of oblivion, the other a landscape of tourism. Social landscapes are concepts rather than single places in historical time, existing as cultural images as well as physical spaces. The post-war Italian annexation of the Soca Valley and other areas to Italy, the process of reburial from small front-line battlefield cemeteries to larger consolidation ones in the valley began. The trenches, caverns, and other positions were occupied by almost 200 ‘Italian, German, and Austro-Hungarian’ soldiers from Slovenia, Italy, Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Poland.
