Una rovina ad alta quota. Il Werk Verena

Abstract

The First World War brought epochal innovations in military, political, socio-economic and terms cultural also for the prodigies that scientific-technological progress has produced: enormous logistical systems and technological predisposed almost exclusively to destroy. The Verena fort, built on the homonymous one peak overlooking the Assa valley, it represented the most efficient Italian response to fortification Austrian-Hungarian. It was built according to the nineteenth-century principles of Enrico Rocchi: with fire mouths effective for long-distance shooting. By reading the correspondence from the Commission of Inquiry, yes design errors of permanent works are avoided. Today, the ruins of the Verena fort, in a area of extraordinary landscape value, are easily accessible through the chairlift which, from the Verenetta refuge below, it climbs to the top of Mount Verena. The current appearance is that of a ruin and as such is placed on the line between the search for immortality of matter and the inevitable action of time.

Keywords

• Forte Verena
• First World War
• Enrico Rocchi
• ruin
• restoration