Historical background and composition

The work of San Michele al Tagliamento, located in the municipality by the same name, is the only fortified compound, belonging to the defence system of the plain sector, made in Veneto. The first fortifications on this site started being built in the early Fifties, along with the first fortification momentum in the Friulian plain. In this period, as the conditions of the peace treaty signed in Paris in 1947 forbade the building of fortifications at less than twenty kilometres from the border between Italy and Yugoslavia, all structures were built along the Tagliamento river, from San Michele al Tagliamento to Bordano.

Over time the configuration of the fortified compound underwent a number of transformations. In the end it included:

• an observatory command post connected to a position for machine guns in a metal turret with four slits (this structure can be visited);
• five positions for machine guns in a metal turret with four slits;
• two positions for an anti-tank gun in tank hull in a concrete tank:. these consisted of an entire tank (initially an M4 “Sherman” then replaced by an M26 “Pershing”) with its engine removed but complete with full armament, located inside a tank made of concrete.

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