Along road SS14, in the village of San Giovanni di Duino (Municipality of Duino Aurisina), you can admire a monument dedicated to the "Wolves of Tuscany", the 76th and 77th Infantry Regiment, also known as Tuscany Brigade. It is located a few kilometres from Mt. Ermada, the southernmost point of the Karst frontline, where this brigade arrived to support the Trapani Brigade in the Tenth Battle of the Isonzo in the spring of 1917.
The monument consists of two bronze wolves perched on a rock in 1951: the first is facing Mt. Ermada while calling on its pack, the second instead looks downwards, as if it was checking on the enemy. Next to it, a memorial stone is dedicated to Major Giovanni Randaccio, the brigade Commander who fell during the Tenth Battle of the Isonzo, whose remains rest in the Cemetery of Heroes of Aquileia. At the side of the rock supporting the statues of the wolves, prominent architect Berlam engraved the first verses of the Aeneid in 1930, to commemorate the two-thousandth anniversary of Virgil's birth.
INFORMATION
Road SS14 - at intersection with the road to the Timavo River mouth
Village of San Giovanni del Timavo
I-34011 Duino Aurisina (TS)
