Una rovina ad alta quota. Il Werk Verena

The First World War brought epochal innovations in military, political, socio-economicand terms cultural also for the prodigies that scientific-technological progress has produced:enormous logistical systems and technological predisposed almost exclusivelyto destroy. The Verena fort, built on the homonymous one peak overlooking the Assavalley, it represented the most efficient Italian response to fortification Austrian-Hungarian.It was built according to the nineteenth-century principles of Enrico Rocchi: withfire mouths effective for long-distance shooting. By reading the correspondence from theCommission of Inquiry, yes design errors of permanent works are avoided. Today, theruins of the Verena fort, in a area of extraordinary landscape value, are easily accessiblethrough the chairlift which, from the Verenetta refuge below, it climbs to the top ofMount Verena. The current appearance is that of a ruin and as such is placed on the linebetween the search for immortality of matter and the inevitable action of time.