Gruppo Alpini "Gen. Pietro Zaglio" di Salce – ANA Belluno Section
Help the living to honour the dead – Nardo Caprioli
On a walk along the seafront in Cannigione, a memorial stone caught my attention. The papers sent by the Guardia di Finanza allowed me to reconstruct the life of Filippo Dessole, from his first call-up in 1918 to his death in August 1940.
From Rossellini’s Il generale Della Rovere to I due marescialli and I due colonnelli with Totò: three very different films portray 8 September 1943, the German occupation and the moment when obedience parts ways with conscience. With a look at the Alpini and the Italian servicemen called upon to choose on their own, without orders and without guarantees.
On 30 August 2026 Cison di Valmarino hosts the 55th Gathering at the Bosco delle Penne Mozze, the woodland memorial to 2,403 fallen Alpini from Treviso.
Ten years after the earthquake of 24 August 2016 we remember the 299 victims and the extraordinary mobilisation of the Alpini. Belluno, Cadore and Feltre also played their part: volunteers on the ground and a fundraising appeal, conceived by Michele Sacchet, which united the three Sections and raised 81,035 euros.
On 3 October 1935 Fascist Italy launched the war in Ethiopia. La Voce Amica also reported those events to the families of Salce. We reread those pages today to understand how propaganda, war and the great events of history reached a small village near Belluno.
What is the true story of the Ponte di Perati? Behind the famous Alpini song lie the Julia Division, the dramatic Greek campaign of 1940, a bridge that was genuinely fought over and destroyed during the withdrawal, and the testimony of those who lived through those days. The history, memory and legend of one of the symbolic places of the Alpini tradition.
The Boys of Aosta ’41 were the university students who attended the first Reserve Officer Cadet Course at the Aosta Military Alpine School. Many volunteered and paid for their service with their lives in the Second World War. A tribute their story deserves.
The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo are among the foremost symbols of the defence of human rights. Fifty years after the military coup of 24 March 1976, they are still demanding truth and justice for the roughly 30,000 desaparecidos of the Argentine dictatorship.
On the Malga Bala upland, between Friuli and Slovenia, twelve former Carabinieri guarding the Bretto di Sotto power station were captured and killed in March 1944. Their names, the places and why we remember them.
In 1918 the Hungarian Honvéd regiments held the Alano basin between Quero and Fener, a place they called “the mousetrap”. Their story is also ours.
