Centro Visite il Poggiolo

At 410 metres on the wooded flank of Monte Sole, the park's Il Poggiolo centre houses a Don Giuseppe Dossetti hall connecting peace education with the memorial landscape.

Why it matters

A memorial landscape needs a door, and for the Parco Storico di Monte Sole that door is Il Poggiolo. The centre stands near San Martino in the memorial zone. The Memoriale route links places associated with the September 1944 massacre to a stele recalling the partisans on Monte Sole.

What to notice

The education hall bears the name of Don Giuseppe Dossetti, the priest and constitutional jurist whose work linked civic responsibility with peace. The surrounding woods and slopes form part of the memorial landscape.

Context and history

The centre belongs to the institutional history of a park created in 1989 to protect both the natural environment and the memory of the 1944 massacres. Since then, management has favoured concentration over dispersion. The Dossetti hall gives the park's peace-education work a setting within the landscape it commemorates. The location connects San Martino and the surrounding memorial area with the events of autumn 1944.