Military Cemetery in Trenta
On the main road, by the civilian cemetery, a World War I military cemetery lies among spruce trees. Here rest the Austrian soldiers who died in the military hospital in Trenta as well as Russian prisoners of war who died during road construction over the Vršič Pass. When the Soča Front was established in 1915, the Austrians needed a transportation link over Vršič in order to supply their troops on the front. They brought about 12,000 Russian prisoners of war captured on the eastern front, who built the road in a superhuman effort. Housed in simple shacks, ill-fed and ill-clothed, many of them perished due to exertion and illness; and in winter, avalanches further decimated the ranks of the builders.
