Canove is a small hamlet of Roana’s common, located on the Asiago Plateau in the Vicentine Prealpes of Veneto Region. The small village is famous for its “Historical Museum of the First World War” (1915-1918), inaugurated in the Spring of 1974.
Museum was built in the ex-railway station and it was realized thank to a small group of local inhabitants.
The exibition is composed by many items and objects of the solders’ life and also a lot of arms and war material; Furthermore there are a lot of photos (over 2.000) and evidence of the past.
Photos show the soldiers’ life, not only in the war field, but also engaged to build roads, thenches, pits, shelds, shelters,forges,sawmilles, aqueducts, mountain cableways, infirmaries and cemeteries.In the period of the First world War, they were built moreover 1.500 kilometers of roads, (which represents the highest density in the world), hundreds of tunnels, trenches and paths.
Inside the museum, the visitors can find also medals and decorations of solders that performer heroic deeds on our local mountains: Monte Cengio, Monte Zovetto, Monte Lémerle, Monte Ortigara and much more. The medals and decorations belong to single soldier for personal bravery or to entire units for collective valor.The aim of the Museum is not to enhance the war but to teach the horrors and cruelties of war.
