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5 unusual facts about Alpini songs


Alpini songs

: A cross is in Nervesa, my brother is buried there, I wrote Ninetto on it, and so mother might find him.

: In 29 we left home, only in 7 we returned, the other 22 all died in San Dona.

: On the famous "Bridge of the Alpini" in Bassano del Grappa the Alpini say goodbye to their loved ones, before departing to the nearby front.

He asks them to cut his heart into five pieces: one for his homeland Italy, one for the battalion, one for his mother, one for his love and the last one for the mountains, which will surround it with roses and flowers.

Canzoni, Preghiere, Danze del II Millennio – Sezione Europa

The first track, "Il Testamento del Capitano", is a live performance of a traditional song-chorus by the Alpini, an elite mountain warfare unit of the Italian Army, that was booed by the spectators.



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