The St. Mark's Battery Open-Air War Musem

Work began in 1909 and was completed in 1912. It was named after St. Mark, Venetian
patron saint, and took an especially active part, together with the Amalfi and Radaelli batteries
in the lower Piave land battles, above all in the summer of 1918.
Battery San Marco consisted of a main building and a number of subsidiary buildings
erected within an outer wall and once sheltered by a huge artificial sand dune. It was also
equipped with two large cannons positioned at the top of the main building in armoured
towers capable of revolving 360° with a range of up to 18 km.
Today it is one of the best preserved batteries on the coast and part of its brick enclosure
walls are still intact together with its great iron gate surmounted by the St. Mark lion, traces
of its rail tracks and a few of its subsidiary buildings which now house tourist and commercial
activities.