Like many other towns in Italy, Gorizia too has its own Memorial Park commemorating the victims of the First World War. It extends over an area of 2 hectares in the heart of town, along Corso Italia, and it was used as a graveyard during the Great War. Its project was masterminded by Enrico del Debbio in 1923, who intended to create an area in memory of the local volunteers who deserted the Habsburg Army and joined the Italian forces instead.
The Park has a number of paths, lined by several trees and leading to some monuments built inside. There are busts dedicated to personalities of the irredentism in Gorizia, such as Vittorio Locchi, Giovanni Maniacco and Emilio Cravos and sculptures celebrating the "Julia" Alpine Brigade and the Infantry Brigade of the "Wolves of Tuscany" ("Lupi di Toscana").
At the centre of the Park, you can find a fountain and the remains of a chapel built by Del Debbio in 1929 and destroyed by German bombing in August 1944. A plaque commemorates this event and testifies one of too many wounds suffered by Gorizia in the 20th century. A wall commemorating 665 deportees from Gorizia in May 1945, the month of Yugoslavian occupation, completes the park and the commemoration of those who fell in battle.
