Monte Pasubio and Strada delle 52 Gallerie

Central keystone of the Veneto Pre-alps, the Pasubio is the conjunction between the Piccole Dolomiti and the plateau region. That is the premise for the exceptional strategic role played by this place in the Great War, becoming "the most fought over mountain along the entire alpine front". The Pasubio became the protagonist of a historical occurrence that has no paragons along the entire tridentine front and which transformed the mountain into what an Austrian solider did not hesitate to call " the witches' cauldron". A network of roads, mule tracks and paths crosses the range from all sides, forming a vast array of entrance itineraries; among these, the extraordinarily daring "Road of the 52 Tunnels", built in 1917 to enable transit of men and provisions in all seasons protected from enemy view towards the summit of the Pasubio. The Road's starting point, the monumental entrance at Bocchetta Campiglia, just above Passo Xomo. From here, the extraordinary military engineering infrastructure, across 52 tunnels of varying lengths (for a total of 6,300 m of which 2,300 in tunnels), gets you, in about 2.5 hours on foot, to Porte del Pasubio, with a difference in level of around 750 m, up to Rifugio Gen. A. Papa. From Rifugio Papa you can visit all the emplacements of the Dente Italiano and the Dente Austriaco (route of around 2 hours): see itinerary "Monte Pasubio and the Strada degli Eroi". 
To return to Bocchetta Campiglia, descend along Strada degli Scarubbi, daring Italian engineer corps infrastructure, only used at night during the war by men and equipment as fully visible to the enemy.

Source: ecomuseograndeguerra.it