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Gothic Line Museum “Museum of Memories Italy”- Iola

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Details:

To the left of the church in a multistory building.

Museum

A museum which includes displays including the 10th Mountain Division Operations in this area during WW2.  

 

From the Museum website:

 

Housed in the seventeenth-century rectory next to the church of St. Mary Magdalene, is a museum of 600 square meters divided into 16 themed rooms which lead you into the ancient culture of the mountain way of life through the reconstruction of domestic scenes and crafts.

 

     Objects, documents and testimonies tell of the area and its history over the centuries up to the Second World War, to which an ample section has been dedicated, distributed in 4 rooms that display a number of war artifacts and military memorabilia relating to the passage of the front along the Gothic Line in these areas.

 

    

Weapons, uniforms and everyday objects belonging to German soldiers of the Wehrmacht, FEB Brazilians and American 10th Mountain Division are on display.


Montese, Bronze Medal of Civil Merit, in the final phase of World War II was the northwest edge of the Gothic Line, the last German

defense against the advance of the allies in Italy. The Germans arrived in Montese at the end of the summer of 1944 from the front of Tuscany, where the first defenses of the Gothic Line on the Giogo and Futa Pass had been broken by the attacks of the Fifth Army.

 

This museum has a sister museum in the castle above the town of Montese dedicated to the Gothic Line Operations. The museums conduct tours of local battlefields and several pathways through Monte Terminale and Monte Montello.

Monument Text:

 

Commemorates:

Units:

10th Mountain Division

5th Army

Wars:

WWII

Battles:

Gothic Line

Italian Campaign

Operation Encore

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