Alpine monument
Via degli Alpini, Rovizza, Sirmione
The Monument to the Alpino was commissioned by Angelo dal Prà, an Alpine originally from the hamlet of Rovizza di Sirmione, who left for the Russian campaign in 1942 at the age of twenty. Returning home after the painful experience at the front, he wanted to build the monument in memory of the fallen comrades during the Nikolaevka retreat of 1943, when about 40,000 men remained, missing, dead in the snow or captured. Only a minimal percentage of these prisoners will return to Italy starting in 1945.
