Tourism in the Places of the Great War in Italy

This article aims to analyze the emergence and transformation of tourism in the war zones in Italy, starting from the study of the pilgrimages that the Italian veterans organized during and after the First World War and coming to the fruition of the tourist sites of the Great War, typical of our times. The « pilgrimages » to the war sites were not always a kind of « tourism » – and even though they might not be labeled as such – it is certainly true that they were the beginning of a new way o..