Martino Lombezzi

The Piave Legend

I traveled the Piave from its source to its mouth, looking on its banks for the remains of a distant myth, which has yet reached our days almost unchanged. Today groups of reenactors play micro representations of the great battles of the past. What remains after the battle? A real trench, dug to fight a fake battle in the same place where the real one was fought, of which today we have lost all traces. History, reinterpreted and manipulated, marks the banks of the Piave again.

I traveled the Piave from its source to its mouth, looking on its banks for the remains of a distant myth, which has yet reached our days almost unchanged. Today groups of reenactors play micro representations of the great battles of the past. What remains after the battle? A real trench, dug to fight a fake battle in the same place where the real one was fought, of which today we have lost all traces. History, reinterpreted and manipulated, marks the banks of the Piave again.

The Piave Legend. In Vittorio Veneto the last armed conflict took place between Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in October 1918, before the end of the war. The road along which the victorious Italian troops entered the city.
La leggenda del Piave. Fagarè della Battaglia (TV), sacrario militare. Una mappa del territorio del fiume Piave e della disposizione delle armate sulle sue sponde.
Breda di Piave (Treviso), Italy. First World War reenactment on the banks of the Piave river. Reconstruction of the military camp.
Grave di Papadopoli (Treviso). Re enactment of the second battle of the Piave river. The Austro Hungarians attacking.
Breda di Piave (Treviso), Italy. First World War reenactment on the banks of the Piave river. Reenactor playing an italian "Caimani del Piave" (special assault troops whose task was to ford the river and raid positions on the other bank).
Breda di Piave (Treviso), Italy. First World War reenactment on the banks of the Piave river. Austro Hungarian and German re enactors running into the battle.
La leggenda del Piave. Sappada (BL). Nei pressi del monta Peralba, sorgente del Piave.
La leggenda del Piave. Fagaré della battaglia, sacrario militare. Iscrizione sui sacelli di caduti ignoti.
Bologna, cimitero monumentale della Certosa. Monumento e sacrario ai caduti.
La leggenda del Piave. Mucchio di sabbia su una sponda presso Eraclea.
Breda di Piave (Treviso), Italy. First World War reenactment on the banks of the Piave river. Displaced persons re enactors.
La leggenda del Piave. Treviso. Istituto Riccati - Luzzatti, inaugurato l'11 novembre 1923, giorno genetliaco di Vittorio Emanuele III, re d'Italia. Murale nell'Aula Magna che rappresenta la massima espansione dell'Impero Romano.
Breda di Piave (Treviso), Italy. First World War reenactment on the banks of the Piave river. Reenactor playing an italian "Ardito" (assault troops)
Breda di Piave (Treviso), Italy. First World War reenactment on the banks of the Piave river. Nurse reenactor.
Breda di Piave (Treviso), Italy. First World War reenactment on the banks of the Piave river. Reenactor playing an italian "Ardito" (assault troops).
Breda di Piave (Treviso), Italy. First World War reenactment on the banks of the Piave river. A makeshift bridge has been built to allow re enactors to cross the river.
Breda di Piave (Treviso), Italy. First World War reenactment on the banks of the Piave river. A reenactor lighting a firecracker.
La leggenda del Piave. Vittorio Veneto, adunata triveneta degli alpini 2018. Alpini sfilano per la città.
Ponte della Priula (Susegana, Treviso), tempio votivo ai caduti costruito nel 1934
La leggenda del Piave. Treviso, adunata degli alpini 2017. Tribune in Piazza della Vittoria.
Nervesa della battaglia (Treviso). Re enactment of the second battle of the Piave river. Re enactors prepare the field before the battle begins.
Grave di Papadopoli (Treviso). Re enactment of the second battle of the Piave river. Fake battlefield after the battle.