South Tyrol's monuments range in size, appearance and history. Commemorative, martial, unshakeable. Massive ossuaries were built from 1938 in Brenner, Reschen and Puster Valley to store the bones of Italian soldiers. A statue of the German poet Walther von der Vogelweide decorates Bolzano's central square and Merano's Sissi monument commemorates the spa town's most famous visitor, Empress Elizabeth of Austria.
