"Monc de Pèsc" - Mountains of Peace in the trenches
The memory of the Great War to promote peace: visit to the "Fango" trench camp with reenactors in historical uniform
Over one hundred and twenty thousand visitors, thousands of original exhibits in five sections with various period environmental reconstructions, and dozens of reports in the Italian and international media. Ten years after its debut, "1914- 1918 - La Gran Vera - The Great War: Galicia-Dolomites", a successful temporary exhibition that has become permanent, is at the centre of "Monc de Pèsc - Mountains of Peace", on 22 and 23 June in Moena. Two days that the Ladin Cultural Institute "Majon di Fascegn" with the Association "Sul fronte dei ricordi" and the Municipality of Moena have conceived, when the war shakes the heart of Europe and Palestine, to support peace with conviction, making constructive memory of the terrible conflict lived, 110 years ago, also in Val di Fassa.
During the two days in Moena at the end of June, in the town squares and in the locality of "Fango" (on the road leading to San Pellegrino Pass), an extraordinary reconstruction of daily military life, on the front line and in the rear, will be proposed with about sixty historical re-enactors in the uniforms of almost all the Italian, German, Austrian and Bosnian corps involved along the lines between Marmolada and San Pellegrino Pass.
Programme "Monc de Pèsc - Mountains of Peace" Sunday 23 June:
- 10:00 to 12:00 - in the locality of "Fango" ("L Fanch") flag-raising ceremony followed by visits to the entrenched camp with reenactors in historical uniforms (in the event of bad weather, activities in the centre of Moena)
- 10:00 to 12:30 - opening of the exhibition "1914-1918 - The Great War: Galicia-Dolomites" at the "Navalge" Theatre in Moena
- 14:30 - parade of band groups through the streets of the Moena centre to celebrate the 170th anniversary of the municipal brass band, with the reenactors of "Monc de Pésc - Montagne di Pace" closing the procession
- 16:00 - in "Piaz de Ramon" square, lowering of the flag to the sound of "Silence"
"Fango" can be reached by car from Moena, in the direction of the San Pellegrino Pass (6 km, approx. 10 minutes). Limited parking on the sides of the road or at the Hotel Bucaneve. Free activity, no reservation required.
