The Austro-Hungarian cemetery is an ossuary inside the cemetery of San Michele al Tagliamento (Venice), made up of 10 rows of half-buried cement slabs, each engraved with a cross.
Beneath the cross, a metal plaque (added in 1984 to cover the original engravings that had become illegible) bears the names of those buried here – some are typically Austro-Hungarian, others Slavic or Balkan, some Italian, in addition to long Hungarian surnames and Romanian names of clear Latin origin – and the date of their deaths (also some birthdates) which range from 1863 to 1900.
At the centre, a marble cross is surrounded by two small cypress trees planted in 1984 when the little ossuary was restored in collaboration with the Austrian government; on the outer edge, a pillar bears inscriptions in Italian and German.
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