Italy 1943–1945
Polish War Cemetery and Memorial Museum, Monte Cassino
War cemetery (Polish) and museum
The story
More than 1,000 soldiers of General Anders' Polish II Corps lie in this amphitheatre-shaped cemetery facing the abbey; Anders himself was buried among them in 1970. Many of these men had come to Italy via Soviet camps and the Middle East, and could never go home to a free Poland.
What to look for
Read the inscriptions at the entrance and on the terraces, find Anders' grave, then see the museum's films and battlefield relics.
Plan your visit
Cemetery on the Strada Albaneta, below the abbey; museum at the entrance. Check before you go.
Nearby sites
- Point 593 memorial, Monte Cassino · under 1 km
- Abbey of Monte Cassino · under 1 km
- Rocca Janula (Castle Hill), Cassino · 2 km
- Historiale museum, Cassino · 2 km
- Cassino War Cemetery and Memorial · 3 km
- German War Cemetery, Caira · 4 km
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Into Europe: Italy 1943–1945
A free field guide for your phone: the route, the maps and the stories built in, even with no signal. The places of the Allied campaign in Italy, from the Sicily landings of July 1943 through Salerno, the Winter Line, Ortona, Cassino and Anzio, Rome, the Gothic Line and the final battles on the Senio and the Po in April 1945.
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