Just below the western side of the peak of Monte Folgorito (911m) in an open area at 853 meters elevation – about 50m lower than the peak.

The marker is a jagged inscribed white piece of stone about 8 feet tall.

The marker represents the area where the Gothic Line passed on this peak in 1944-45. 

Something about the Gothic Line:  The last major line of defense in the final stages of World War II, along the Apennines formed by Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, was named “Gothic Line" (Gotenstellung). During the Summer of 1944, when it was feared the Allied armies would easily breach it and fan out in the Po Valley after their advance North of Rome, the name was changed by Kesselring to “Green Line” (Grüne Linie), so as not to compromise such an imposing denomination, but the first name survived in general parlance.

The tactics of retreating to organized lines of defense prepared along prominent terrain features up the Italian “boot” (such as the "Gustav Line" at Cassino) was successfully followed by the German Army throughout the Italian Campaign. The German command had started to study the idea of fortifying the Central Apennines already in August 1943, when the Allies were still fighting in Sicily. Work however started only during the Spring of 1944, under the direction of the Todt work organization.

The Gothic Line was not a continuous line of fortification, but rather a series of strong points arranged in depth, exploiting the natural terrain features which favored the defender. Traversing the Italian mainland from the Tyrrhenian coast North of Viareggio to the Adriatic at Pesaro, the line extended for more than 300 km. It included thousands of field fortifications made of wood, rock or steel-girded concrete, and included long antitank ditches - extended mine fields and wire emplacements completed the picture.

The text is in Italian and reads:

Linea Gotica

Settembre 1944 - 

April 1945

The translation is:

Gothic Line

September 1944 – 

April 1945