Military Secrets: On the path to the renegade Someda Fort

In the kingdom of the Fairy, of dreams and stories of war and peace, the walls of a Fort resist which has not lent itself to the history of men in arms but which still remembers it.

The walk that leads to the meadows of "I Ronc" is an adventure into the careless traps of history. Among the proud and unrepentant rocks of the Dolomites, on the line that closed the Austro-Hungarian defenses, an armed fort escaped the war. The Someda Fort built in 1898, was already antiquated by 1915. Dressed in moss and herbs in summer and soft snow in winter, it marks the pace of this excursion along the course of the Rif de Sèn Pelegrin. Almost a two-storey granite cube with reinforced concrete barrel roofs. Protected by a wide and deep moat, it still retains the original iron door. Equipped with cannons, machine guns and other artillery, it hid 8 officers and 146 soldiers. But, just at the outbreak of the war, the Fort was judged antiquated. Today it deserves a look, in memory of a past that divided and then united peoples who walked paths of incredible beauty. Look at them as you go, today, in the freedom of a boundless gaze.