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The strategic position of Corno Battisti was the source of bloody battles for its possession during the Great War. To this end, it was equipped with numerous tunnels dug into the rock, with three separate entrances and numerous firing positions. The tunnels can be accessed with great caution, with a torch and preferably a via ferrata kit. Currently (2025), the upper entrance is closed.

The Cascata dei Papalini suddenly appears in a small clearing in the heart of the forest, along the path: over time the falling water has formed a columnar deposit of gray limestone that descends like a drape and that partly acts as a springboard for the jet. But the peculiarity and spectacular nature of this waterfall is the possibility of seeing it even from behind the scenes: in fact, by climbing to the left on a short but steep path, you reach a natural roof of the rock from which you can observe the forest below through the curtain of water, without getting wet! The passage is not protected and is wet, so you need to pay particular attention. Like all torrential waterfalls, it is not always full and active: you need to look for the right period, perhaps after heavy rains, to visit it in all its thunderous splendor.

Il Corno Battisti, an isolated rocky spur of the Pasubio Group, sheer above Vallarsa, offers a spectacular panorama of the long valley and the surrounding mountains: Pasubio, Sengio Alto, Carega, Monte Zugna. Precisely because of its strategic position, it was fiercely contested during the First World War: the possibility of controlling all troop and supply movements in the valley from above made the Corno a crucial point to occupy and defend at all costs... it was indeed nicknamed 'the eye of the Pasubio' or 'the spy of Vallarsa'. At the beginning of the conflict, it was a garrison of the Italian army, but with the Strafexpedition in 1916, it was occupied by the Austro-Hungarians. The Italians, unable to recapture it, dug a mine gallery from below to pierce the Corno and blow up the summit; the imperialists in turn dug a counter-mine gallery from above. Everything was ready for detonation, but a daring raid by a few commandos allowed the summit to be recaptured by the Royal Army, which held it until the end of the war. In 1916, near the summit, the Austro-Hungarians captured the irredentists Cesare Battisti and Fabio Filzi, who were immediately taken to Trento and hanged at the Castello del Buonconsiglio as traitors: for this reason, the summit, known at the time as 'Corno della Vallarsa', was renamed 'Corno Battisti' after the war. The Austro-Hungarian observatory survives on the summit. The bowels of the Corno, on the other hand, are excavated by a surprising labyrinth of dark and damp tunnels with steep steps: they are passable, but to reach them from the summit, one must go around the spur following a narrow, steep path; furthermore, to complete the loop of the tunnels, one must face a short, equipped and exposed section, and descend a metal ladder of about fifteen meters which is by no means trivial (EE). https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Corno_Battisti https://www.esercito.difesa.it/storia/pagine/monte-corno.aspx

Always a magical place to see

Beautiful waterfall, it looks like a face with one eye, a big nose and teeth😊

The Road of Heroes owes its name to the twelve plaques affixed along it in honor of the twelve gold medals for military valor who fought on Pasubio during the Great War. The twelve people remembered are: Lieutenant Cesare Battisti, Captain Aldo Beltricco, Bersagliere Torquato Cardelli, Lieutenant Umberto Cerboni, Major Felice Chiarle, Second Lieutenant Fabio Filzi, Colonel Antonio Gioppi, Second Lieutenant Giordano Ottolini, Major Mario Rossani , Colonel Eduardo Suarez, Second Lieutenant Ferdinando Urli, Lieutenant Carlo Sabatini.

A stretch of road on the Pasubio massif, in the Vicenza Pre-Alps, the Strada degli Eroi was built following the First World War to provide the summit area of the mountain with a safe access route. The actual Road of Heroes is the approximately two kilometer long stretch that connects the Giuseppe d'Havet Gallery to the Achille Papa refuge: this stretch is in a certain sense the appetizer.

The Papalini waterfall is a small waterfall in the middle of the woods, it deserves to be seen