Military secrets: at the renegade Fort of Someda

<p>In the realm of the Fairy Moena, between dreams and tales of war and peace, the walls of a Fort endure. A place that never lent itself to the armed history of men but still preserves its memory today.</p>

<p>The walk leading to the meadows of "I Ronc" is an adventure into the reckless traps of history. Among the proud and unyielding rocks of the Dolomites, on the line that closed the Austro-Hungarian defenses, an armed Fort avoided war. The Fort of Someda built in 1898 was already outdated by 1915. Dressed in moss and herbs in summer and soft snow in winter, it marks the step of this excursion along the course of Rif de Sèn Pelegrin. Almost a two-story granite cube with barrel-vaulted reinforced concrete roofs. Protected by a wide and deep moat, it still preserves the original iron door. Equipped with cannons, machine guns, and other artillery, it housed 8 officers and 146 soldiers. But, just at the outbreak of the war, the Fort was judged militarily ineffective. It today deserves a look, in remembrance of a past that divided and then united peoples who walked roads of incredible beauty. Watch them as you proceed today, in the freedom of an endless view. </p>