TRE SASSI DEFENCE POINT

 

Reference point: Dolomites and Belluno area

Address: Cortina d'Ampezzo (BL)

Category:  Military projects

 

Il Forte Tre Sassi is a symbolic fort of the Great War and in 2003 it became a museum housing the weapons and equipment used by the soldiers and at the front. In the proximities it is possible to visit the trenches  and the huts where the Austrian soldiers lodged.
The principal purpose of this fort was to defend the peaks of Lagazuoi and Sass de Stria.