Military Memorial of Monte Grappa

The committee was dismissed and in 1932 Mussolini placed General Ugo Cei in charge of a new commission tasked with building a suitably monumental ossuary.

[1][5] The design was by the same pair who created the Redipuglia War Memorial and The Italian Charnel House, Kobarid, architect Giovanni Greppi and sculptor Giannino Castiglioni.

The columbarium model, together with the use of stone and bronze for the closures of the niches, recalls the Roman classicism so much in favour during the Fascist period.

[2] At the center of the Italian ossuary is the chapel of the Madonna del Grappa, placed on the summit on 4 August 1901 by the patriarch of Venice Giuseppe Sarto (later Pope Pius X), a symbol of the Christian faith in the Veneto.

After the war it as removed for repair and restoration and was displayed in a number of cities before being returned to its place in the chapel around which the Memorial was later built.