More than a hundred years after the First World War, Europe has changed profoundly: peoples who were once enemies now share their holidays on the beaches of the Adriatic, including those of Venice and its lagoon. During the conflict, those same waters were traversed by battleships and submarines, while airships, seaplanes and biplanes took to the skies. From the 24th of May 1915 Venice had been a strategic port for the Italian Navy while the Arsenal produced ships, armaments and equipment. After Caporetto, in November 1917, Austro-German troops invaded the Veneto region and stopped at the Piave river, the last line of the Italian defence, from which the domes of Venice could be seen. Cavallino-Treporti still preserves more than two hundred military buildings: forts, batteries, barracks, powder magazines, telemetry towers and bunkers, evidence of a wartime past that profoundly marked the landscape.
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