Hungarian military at the Museo degli Alpini

(To Army Majority State)
27/10/15

A group of young students from the "Ludovika" battalion of the Hungarian Army Military Academy on an educational trip to our country, visited Doss Trento to visit the National Historical Museum of the Alpini.

The museum, installed on the rock of the Doss Trento (or "Verruca") in an imposing natural setting that dominates the city and which hosted important prehistoric settlements, today holds relics, uniforms, publications, photographic documentation, as well as numerous volumes of historical value.

The Hungarian military, accompanied by their commander, Lieutenant Colonel Sári Szabolcs, and welcomed by the museum's director, General Stefano Basset, first visited the interior of the museum (which houses, in synthetic reviews, the history of the museum). Alpine Corps from the foundation to the present day), to then continue externally where further historical relics are exhibited that have characterized the mountain troops, including the inevitable "house of the mule".

The visit, which is part of the program of cultural activities of the Hungarian Academy concerning the museums and shrines of the first war from Caporetto to Trento and which takes on greater significance because it is located on the centenary of the Great War, represented a precious occasion to make known the events of the last century as well as appreciate the landscape and monuments of Trentino.

At the end of the visit, General Basset gave the group a certificate in memory of the day passed.