As well as being a unique place for its nature and its history the Carso is also a sacred place for pilgrimages because of the battles fought here in the First World War. Between 1915 and 1918 many caves were used as depositories for ammunition and shelter for the troops, and trenches were dug all over the area. The typical ‘castellieri’, Neolithic constructions built high up and surrounded by strong walls, typical of the Venezia Giulia region, became strategic positions and fundamental points along the defence lines.

The cellars were built near to a real historic testimony of the First World War. An underground embrasure of over 1,000 square metres linked to a wide network of external trenches, built between 1915 and 1918 by the Third Company of Miners of the Italian army, during the battle on the Isonzo front, fought between the Austro-Hungarian army and the Italians.

This structure, which adjoins the cellars, will soon become a museum which, with faithful reconstructions of scenes of life in the trenches, will pay homage to those who fought and died in the war. A war which seems incomprehensible and is poorly remembered but was fought by thousands of Austrian, Hungarian, Czech, Croatian, Slovenian and Russian soldiers against an equal number of Italian contingents.