The Fort of Exilles houses two permanent museum areas and offers two guided visitor routes enriched by theatrical sets of great evocative impact conceived by the artist Richi Ferrero.
The museum area of the Alpine troops is situated in the spaces of the Royal Battery, the Fort's main front of fire. Great glass showcases, like huge aquariums, contain
forty-four uniforms that trace the history of the heroic military corps of the Alpini, from its origins to our days.
Each uniform is worn by a stone soldier...
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Who were the men that wore these uniforms? What did they think about? With the more traditional exhibition area behind us, part of a letter from a soldier to his family introduces us to the sphere of memory. Rock, iron, ice, fog, snow, night: six material elements, strongly reminiscent of the mountain environment, become six stage...
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