Museo della Guerra a San Martino

The San Martino War Museum preserves objects and photographs collected over decades by local mountain guide Edoardo Zagonel from First World War sites in the Pale di San Martino and Lagorai.

Why it matters

The front between Italy and Austria-Hungary crossed these mountains from 1915 to 1918. Zagonel's collection keeps this history local, bringing together material recovered from the surrounding mountain landscape. He and Fiorenzo Simion also documented the war in Primiero in a book.

What to notice

The collection includes military equipment, ordnance, everyday objects and photographs associated with the high-altitude front. Their provenance connects the material to the Pale di San Martino and Lagorai, where the terrain shaped the experience of the war.

Context and history

Born in San Martino di Castrozza in 1930, Zagonel spent decades gathering objects and photographs from wartime sites in the mountains where he worked as a guide. The museum grew from that effort to preserve local memories of the 1915–1918 conflict. It is distinct from the separate Great War collection at Caoria.