Tempio della Vittoria (war_memorial)
The Tempio della Vittoria—also known as the Sacrario dei Caduti of Milan—is a monumental war memorial chapel built to honour the city’s World War I dead. It rises next to the Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio, and the story of its site runs deeper than the twentieth century: the chosen ground had earlier links to a cemetery connected with early Christian martyrs. The memorial was commissioned after the First World War by the Associazioni Combattentistiche, veterans’ associations from Milan. Work began in 1927, and the shrine was inaugurated on 4 November 1928, timed to the tenth anniversary of the Allied victory. The ceremony was led by Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta—the commander of the 3rd Army and, since 1926, Marshal of Italy. …
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