Monte Scalpello (Mount Scalpello)

Mount Scalpello is a 583 metres (1,913 ft) hill in central eastern Sicily, Italy. The hill is mostly known for Triassic and Neolithic remains being found in 1997 and there it is mostly linked with Canadian campaign of WW2 in Italy where a mule path south of the hill was the location of multiple CYR advances during night operations. After which two companies held the hill against constant German mortar and artillery.

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