Parco delle Rimembranze
Tree-lined memorial park on a lagoon-edge island, its pines each planted for a fallen soldier.
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This guide to Parco delle Rimembranze on Sant'Elena in Venice covers two kinds of memory laid over the same ground: a 1922 order that every Italian town plant one tree for each soldier lost in the Great War, and a violent storm that tore across this lagoon on the night of September 11, 1970. It follows a crowded passenger boat and around fifty people caught out on the water as the storm approached, and the wind speeds witnesses later clocked as among the strongest ever measured in Europe. Look toward the lagoon, where the water in front of you was the center of it all.
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