Forte Velon

Built between 1898 and 1900, in concrete faced with blocks of local granite, it was a supporting work for forte Strino, which stands above it: the Austrians called it the work for the close defence of the Strino. Two storeys on a square plan, two 8 centimetre guns and two machine guns behind armoured shields: it was meant to close the mouth of the val di Stavel and keep the valley floor of the Vermigliana under fire.

In 1906 it was linked to forte Strino by a protected concrete staircase. But it was already considered obsolete before the war, and in 1915 it was disarmed: from then on it served as a telephone exchange for the forts of the Tonale barrier. After the war, scavengers of war materiel damaged it severely, and today it is a ruin.