...Hostile and fair witness, Marmolada preserves, in caves and subways, the echo of the cries and of the imprecations, of the prayers and of the hopes of those men whom, withdrawn from their families and from their sweetest loves were sent up there to the war...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Dott. Mario Bartoli

Here, on the VU saddle, in a trench-war the Italians tought against the Austro-Hungarians in the years 1915-1917