The fallen of the First and Second World Wars

The sacrifice for the homeland.
Tombs and monuments to the fallen in the two World Wars

Among the paths winding along the evergreen cypress trees of the Sant'Anna Cemetery, it is possible to trace one that accompanies visitors in commemorating those whose lives were cut short during the two greatest conflicts of the 20th century.
An ideal – although not exhaustive - itinerary is the one that runs clockwise from the entrance to the cemetery to the Ara dei Caduti nel Primo conflitto mondiale (Altar of the Fallen in the First World War), the work of architect Carlo Polli, which stands imposingly in the middle of the southern rotunda (Section XIV, no. 68).
Several sections contain tombs that preserve the memory of those who, in different ways, sacrificed their lives for common ideals. However, only a few have been chosen that are particularly representative as they combine the memory of sacrifice for the homeland with aesthetic standards of special value.
That of Franco Buri and Sergio Fonda Savio, whose stele is signed 'Mascherini' (Section III, at the wall, Class III, no. 14), as is the tomb for those who fell during the public demonstrations in the name of the Italian Trieste on 5 and 6 November 1953, 5 May and 3 November 1945 and 15 September 1947 (Section XIV, Class II, no. 7333).
An inscription in the chapel of the Codermatz family (Section XIV, Class III, no. 3198) commemorates the sacrifice of Alpine Lieutenant Mario Codermatz, who died at the Marda Pass in Ethiopia in 1941, while, in the nearby Section XV, the tomb of the Stuparich family (rotunda, Class III, no. 5615), a trilithon in Karst stone honours the sacrifice of Carlo Stuparich by also preserving the boulder that on Mount Cengio watched over his remains for many years.