Sacrario Militare dei Caduti d'Oltremare

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Sacrario Militare dei Caduti d'Oltremare
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Data
place Bari , Apulia
architect Paolo Caccia Dominioni
Construction year -1967
Coordinates 41 ° 6 ′ 32.4 "  N , 16 ° 54 ′ 15"  E Coordinates: 41 ° 6 ′ 32.4 "  N , 16 ° 54 ′ 15"  E

The Sacrario Militare dei Caduti d'Oltremare is a military cemetery and memorial near Bari in Italy . Around 75,000 Italian soldiers who had died overseas (it. Oltremare ) in the two world wars found their final resting place here. It is the second largest Italian military cemetery after Redipuglia .

Brief description

The military cemetery planned by the engineer, architect and officer Paolo Caccia Dominioni is located on the south-eastern outskirts of Bari, on Via Giovanni Gentile , around one kilometer before it joins State Road 16 to Brindisi . The facility was inaugurated on December 10, 1967. At the entrance, under the flight of stairs and the portico, there is a military museum with countless exhibits that mainly depict the history of the Second World War and also document many individual fates. The cemetery is divided according to the theater of war in the Balkans , North and East Africa . One department is assigned to Germany and the Italian military internees who perished there . The remains of the soldiers who perished in the theaters of war between 1911 and 1945 were transferred to Bari from abroad over the years, especially after the closure of Italian military cemeteries in other countries. There were also Askaris from Libya and Eritrea , or even parts of the crew of the submarine R.Smg. Scirè buried. Around 40,000 soldiers resting here are unknown.

In the outdoor area and in the park ( Parco delle Rimembranze ) a number of guns and armored vehicles are on display.

The facility is looked after by the War Graves Commission of the Italian Ministry of Defense .

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