SIGHTS
Military graveyard in Trenta



On the main highway, by the civilian cemetery, a World War I military cemetery lies among spruce trees. Here rest the Austrian soldiers who died in the military hospital in Trenta and Russian prisoners of war who died during road construction over the Vršič pass. When the Soča front was established in 1915, the Austrians needed a transportation link over Vršič in order to supply their troops on the front. They brought about 12.000 Russian prisoners of war captured on the eastern front, who built the road in a superhuman effort. Housed in simple shacks, ill-fed and ill-clothed, many of them perished due to exertion and illness. And in winter, avalanches further decimated the ranks of builders.

• it lies near the main church next to the civilian cemetery;
• it is a graveyard of austrian soldiers and russian prisoners in the
  world war i.