The charnel house of Italian soldiers was completed in 1938, and on the 18th September it was ceremonially opened by Benito Mussolini. It was the work of the sculptor Giannino Castiglioni and the architect Giovanni Greppi. Its overall ground plan is octagonal, containing three diminishing concentric "octagonal circles" embracing the tapering hill in the upward direction on the top of which stands the church of St. Anthony. Transferred to the charnel house were mortal remains of 7014 known and unknown Italian soldiers who had been killed in the First World War and originally buried in different military cemeteries in the surroundings. Their names are engraved onto the slabs of greenish serpentine. Beside the charnel house, there are also memorial tablets which are dedicated to the Italian soldiers and were transferred from the Bovec area in 1981. Along the road from Kobarid to the church of St. Anthony stand the fourteen Stations of the Cross. The charnel house and the Stations of the Cross are managed by the Italian state.