War Memorial of the 363rd US Infantry Regiment

On the Provincial Road 503 which leads to the Giogo Pass, less than 2 kilometers after the MuGot, going up, in the locality of Omomorto, not visible from the road, there is the large monument to the fallen. It is possible to visit it by leaving the car on a small lay-by on the right in front of a left bend. You cross the road and a green iron gate opens. Going fifty meters uphill you reach the monument.

Made of travertine, a white stone similar to marble, it consists of a high semicircular wall, with at the top a bronze sculpture representing two heads of men, one in a vertical position and the other, with an ancient-style helmet, in a horizontal.

The wall, supported by columns, is placed at the top of a staircase, also in a semicircle. On the sides there are two lower walls on which the marble plaques bearing the names of 436 soldiers of 363 are fixed.^rd US Infantry Regiment, 91^st Division, who were killed in combat in this area. On the back, two metal plates have been placed attesting to the restoration of the monument by the Florence Mugello Lions Club11. The complete restoration of the area and the monument by Gotica Toscana is underway^Association.

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