The ossuary of Douaumont, close to Verdun (France) is a should for a tour of the memorial areas of the First World Conflict. There they meet, across the village and the fort of Douaumont, hundreds of French and German troopers, about 130,000 of whom are mendacity, unidentified, beneath the black and white crosses (completely different colours for winners and losers) and the necropolis. For 300 days in 1916, the armies clashed round there. Twenty-six million tons of bombs exploded killing at the least 300,000 males.
Douaumont ossuary
Along with the huge inexperienced meadows dotted with hundreds of bicolor crosses, is the constructing of the ossuary to make an impression, for its grandeur. It ought to appear like the deal with of an enormous as large sword caught within the floor to say sufficient is sufficient with the struggle (though 6 years after the conclusion of the work of that monument, the struggle had already restarted).
Ossuary of Douaumont (Verdun, France 2013)
Designed by the architects Léon Azéma, Max Edrei and Jacques Hardy, the shrine is 138 meters lengthy, below which a protracted barrel vault protects a struggle museum, many particular person graves and the ossuary. La Tour des Morts is 46 meters excessive and permits you to see the entire space and those that had been the battlefields of 100 years in the past.
From April to November round Verdoun there are organized excursions to the locations of the Nice Conflict, which additionally passes from Douaumont. The ticket prices 27 Euros and the go to lasts from 14:00 to 18:00.
