Monuments Sacrario Militare The military shrine of Asiago stands on the Leiten hill, in the city of the same name. It was designed by the architect Orfeo Rossato of Venice and completed in 1936. The monumental memorial houses the remains of 34,286 Italian soldiers who died in the Great War of 1915-18, of which 12,795 identified and 21,491 unknown. Twelve of these fallen have been awarded the Gold Medal for Military Valor and two of these are Jews.