The Tagliamento is the most important river in Friuli-Venezia Giulia with a length of 170 km and a river basin almost 3000 km² wide.
Considered the only one in the entire Alpine arc and one of the few in Europe to preserve the original morphology with intertwined channels, it is also called the King of Alpine rivers.
During the First World War, after the breakthrough of the Italian front in Caporetto by the Austro-Germans, General Cadorna ordered (26 Oct. 1917) the retreat to the right of the T. and the constitution of a special army corps as extreme attempt to hold the river line.
On the evening of 30 Oct. the deployment was accomplished, but with artillery poorly equipped with ammunition.
The Austro-Germans, moreover, to prevent the Italians from strengthening on the T., attacked and managed to force the passage of the river to Corino and downstream of Pinzano, compromising the entire defensive sector of the entire river line.
Cadorna then ordered that the troops of the Carnic area immediately fall back to the plane, while on 4 November he ordered all the retreating columns to reach the Piave.
In Pinzano al Tagliamento there is the former German ossuary commissioned by Hitler himself but was never finished. Nowadays we see the structure of the Ex Ossuary that coexists with trees and brambles in a spectacular setting of the Tagliamento, giving visitors a truly suggestive panoramic point, which deserves to be seen!
Tagliamento River
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