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Fogliano Redipuglia

Field	Value
name	Fogliano Redipuglia
official_name	Comune di Fogliano Redipuglia
image_skyline	Fogliano chiesa e municipio.jpg
image_shield	FoglianoRedipuglia.gif
coordinates
region	Friuli-Venezia Giulia
province	Gorizia (GO)
frazioni	Fogliano, Polazzo, Redipuglia
mayor	Cristiana Pisano
area_total_km2	7.8
population_footnotes
population_total	3058
population_as_of	28 February 2017
elevation_m	23
postal_code	34070
area_code	0481
website

Fogliano Redipuglia (; Bisiacco: Foian Redipuia; ; , ) is a comune (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Gorizia in the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about 35 km northwest of Trieste and about 13 km southwest of Gorizia.

Fogliano Redipuglia borders the following municipalities: Doberdò del Lago, Gradisca d'Isonzo, Ronchi dei Legionari, Sagrado, San Pier d'Isonzo, Villesse.

World War I memorial

The [[Redipuglia War Memorial]], resting place of approximately 100,000 Italian soldiers. More than 650,000 died on the battlefields of [[World War I]].

Fogliano Redipuglia lies at the eastern end of the shifting front of the Italian Campaign against Austria-Hungary (and Germany) in World War I, and today is home to Italy's largest war memorial on Monte Sei Busi in Redipuglia.

The huge war memorial from 1938 contains the corpses of 39,857 identified Italian soldiers, and 69,330 unidentified. In a nearby cemetery are buried another around 14,000 Austro-Hungarian soldiers. Trench fortifications can be seen next to the war memorial, as well as a display of large World War I artillery pieces.

Pope Francis visited Redipuglia's military memorial on 13 September 2014 to mark the centenary of World War I to pray for those who died in all wars.

References

All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute [[National Institute of Statistics (Italy). Istat]].
"News from the Vatican - News about the Church - Vatican News".
(13 September 2014). "Pope Francis warns on 'piecemeal World War III'". BBC News.
homily at http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/pope-francis-homily-at-the-world-war-i-memorial-in-redipuglia

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