The Germanic Mausoleum of Quero is one of the many places in Italy where the bodies of Austro-Hungarian and German soldiers dating back to the Great War rest. It stands on the top of the Col Maor, a small relief of the Belluno Pre-Alps near the course of the Piave where a Habsburg outpost was located in the last year of the war. The works began in 1936 on a project by the German engineer Robert Tischler (who will also execute the unfinished Ossuary of Colle Pion di Pinzano al Tagliamento) and ended 3 years later. It houses a single mass grave with the remains of 3,465 soldiers (including 232 German Alpenkorps) who died in the battles on the Grappa Massif between November 1917 and October 1918.
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