The Great War

The war was long and terrible and is still remembered today as the Great War.

Even Torre di Zuino suffered considerable damage: after the defeat of Caporetto, the Italian army had to retreat and in order not to leave the materials piled up in the warehouses and barracks to the enemies, it destroyed and set them on fire. However, the fire spread, as the parish priest recounts in his diary:

… even the barracks of Torre di Zuino caught fire. The large warehouses burned. The Palazzo dei Conti Corinaldi burned, the hotel burned, the post office located near the parish priest’s rectory in the former rectory of the chaplain burned. All the people fled in the most terrible dismay. The fire took on ever larger and ever more vast proportions. Beyond the barracks, ten houses burned! How horrible! The soldiers have a mania for setting fire to everything: they try to start the fire on the houses of the Villa di sotto, on those of the Casali Canciani Bertossi, on those of the Fornelli, but the population reacts and manages to put out the straw that the soldiers had already lit in some kitchens and to prevent new fires…