Outline of the place:
The Austro-Germans entered Alano di Piave in November of 1917 and immediately tried to pass the sloping dorsal between the Tomba and Monfenera mountains.
The Italians succeeded in keeping them on the peak but, from this position, the imperial soldiers were easily able to defeat the logistic organization of their adversaries, located at the Grappa base.
A young lieutenant of Wurtenburg, Erwin Rommel, who was destined to become one of the most famous German generals during the Second World War (nicknamed the “desert fox”) was active in conquering the Tomba summit position. The peak of the Tomba was fiercely contested in December of 1917, when the French “Chasseurs des Alpes” swept the Italians to victory, inverting the positions to the advantage of the allies. The regular designs of the trenches and the infinity of holes from the bombs that shook the area can still be made out between the fields and the woods.