Mount San Michele, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy. July 23rd, 2013. A telephone call from Naples : it's Gino, My life-companion's cousin. He asks me to help him find his great uncle's memorial stone on the Karst Plateau. Gino's great-uncle deserved a postumous golden medal for being killed in a brave action at 'Bosco Cappuccio' . We have no idea where that stone might be. A web search has not given any clue, the information bureau at Redipuglia is closed, the hotel-owner where we stop cannot help us. In the evening, while we are having supper at a Slovenian 'gostilna', I remember that there is a
Mount San Michele, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy. July 23rd, 2013. A telephone call from Naples : it's Gino, My life-companion's cousin. He asks me to help him find his great uncle's memorial stone on the Karst Plateau. Gino's great-uncle deserved a postumous golden medal for being killed in a brave action at 'Bosco Cappuccio' . We have no idea where that stone might be. A web search has not given any clue, the information bureau at Redipuglia is closed, the hotel-owner where we stop cannot help us. In the evening, while we are having supper at a Slovenian 'gostilna', I remember that there is a path called 'percorso dei cippi' (track of the memorial stones) on mount San Michele. The day after, we drive up to mount San Michele and park the car on a large square. Getting off the car, Gino is astonished : “Look at my great-uncle! “ That stone was awaiting us : on the very spot where we have just parked the car, without knowing.
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