Mount Sabotino, the northern bastion of the Austro-Hungarian bridgehead of Gorizia, represented a key point on the Isonzo front from the beginning of the Italo-Austrian war of 1915-18. An extraordinary fortress in stone, this relief still shows valuable evidence of the ars fortificatoria practiced first by the Austro-Hungarian technical units and, after August 1916, by the Italian ones who transformed it into a real underground bulwark. This volume in the series “Archeologia di guerra” offers the public a tool for understanding the fascinating metamorphosis of a mountain that, due to its war history, entered into myth...