The Asiago plateau is one of the most iconic locations of World War I, having seen many battles between Italian and Austro-Hungarian troops. After the end of the war, the town of Asiago was selected to house one of the largest memorials of the Great War.

The burial monument was built in the 1930s on Leiten Hill on the edge of town. The sprawling square base contains the crypt and an octagonal chapel. Burial niches line the walls of the corridors, holding the remains of over 33,000 fallen Italian soldiers whose bodies were exhumed from 35 nearby war cemeteries in the mid-1930s.