ANNUAL EVENT Footprints on the Cavendish Road to Monte Cassino

The Annual Walking on the Cavendish Road, this year, is scheduled for Sunday 7th of October. Booking this experience you will have include one night in my hotel (La Pace) on Saturday 6th October, and the Ticket for the Cavendish Road on Sunday 7th October including lunch and Transfer Service from the hotel to the Cavendish Road. This Hotel-Package is composed as follow: "6th of October 2018": check-in available from 1000hrs - Meeting in the lobby of the hotel at 1700hrs for a first approach to The 4 Battles for Cassino and the importance of the Cavendish Road, with my personal presentation, including old maps, original photo and different points of view. "7th of October": meeting-point at 0800hrs to take our Transfer Service to reach the Cavendish Road and join together with the annual party of local abithants. The path is about 5 kms walking going uphill on an old mule-track, the walking will be very slow. We will reach the Albaneta Farm where, we will have our lunch including in the ticket. Along the path we can appreciate some spots animated by brave men reenacting the soldier positions during the battles.
Story
This was an old mule track that connected the village of Caira with the monastery of Monte Cassino passing through the plateau of Masseria Albaneta. This mule track was known for centuries only by the inhabitants of the district of the Cassino area but became, due to the war events of 1944, one of the most important roads during the military campaign on the Apennine peninsula between 1943 and 1945 to the point that it was named by the New Zealander soldiers "Cavendish Road".
In preparation for the Third Battle of Cassino, Indian and New Zealand Engineers worked during the night and under a particular strategy of smoke covering and camouflage in order to improve this track so that tanks could move on it, to try and outflank the defensive positions at Monte Cassino. An incredible feat of battlefield engineering was achieved, although the tank assault which followed was less than decisive. The track remained in use for the rest of the battle until Polish troops utilized it for their own tank advance in May 1944 in support of the final assault on the rubble of Monte Cassino.
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