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ARCHIVIO 19/2003 - SPECIALE CANSIGLIO - 3 - RESISTENZA E CANSIGLIO

STRENGTH CANSIGLIO

We saw the forest of the plateau and Cansiglio 5, 7 and 11 September. Was enough to suggest ideas to our short trip information. Sunday, 14 but had to return. Because a page of contemporary history, tragic and proud at the same time, it was written in these places. Hundreds of people attended the ceremony marking the 59th anniversary of the Nazi-Fascist Combing which resulted in 490 killed in partisan division "Nino Nannetti. The procession opened the Gonfaloni decorated with a gold medal in the Province of Pordenone, of the city of Belluno, Treviso, Vittorio Veneto. Then came the delegations of several municipalities in the three provinces of Cansiglio, Belluno, Treviso, Pordenone. At the center of the delegations of Associations partisan decorated for military valor.

An armed guard was given the honor while he laid a wreath at the foot of the monument erected to memory of the resistance by Augusto Murer. In greeting the mayor of Vittorio Veneto, Giancarlo Scott, there have been other interventions. A former mayor of Tambre, Marco Bortoluzzi, chairman of the committee to expand the monument according to the importance of events. After some difficulties, related to the Environmental Plan, Borthwick confirmed the go-ahead to work. Lorenzo Capovilla, Institute for the History of the Resistance and Contemporary Society of Treviso, has finally recalled the events of '44. Six hundred thousand Italian soldiers were deported to Germany, and a resistance to the Nazi work, in our valleys and our mountains, young officers in command of partisan groups. As the division Nannetti "being release from the grip of Germany on September 9th of '44, who succeeded despite these losses, to rescue almost all units, consisting of thousands of freedom fighters.

Photo: moments of the parade and ceremony ANPI - AVL "Meeting in Cansiglio, Sunday, September 14, 2003, with Monument of Augusto Murer.

Cansiglio

From Belluno slope Cansiglio you arrive in the vicinity of Lake St. Cross from Bivio The Secca (Ponte nelle Alpi) in the direction of Puos Alpago and Tambre, or by Farra D'Alpago for Valdenogher and Spert.

Belonging to the Carnian Alps, the plateau is bordered by Conca Alpago, the mountain range of the Horse and Val Lapisina.

The karst nature of the area makes it non-existent permanent watercourses, although the precipitation is abundant. The summer of 2003 has seen them fall, as in other areas, with resumption of the second half of August. The storms in September have returned to normal climate Cansiglio, known for high levels of atmospheric humidity and fog characteristics.

F oto: Products Cansiglio Farra d'Alpago, Lago Santa Croce.