Monument to the soldiers of the Kingdom of Sardinia at the foot Gasfort - one of the main attractions of Sevastopol, which serves a vivid reminder of the period of the Crimean War.

According to history, in the enemy coalition soldiers entered the Kingdom of Sardinia. Italian body consisting of seventeen thousand Italian soldiers stormed Sevastopol strengthening June 6, 1855. He also took part in the battle Chernorechensky. Under the leadership of Lieutenant-General the Marquis Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora body landed at Balaklava, occupied positions in the Telegraph and the height of the mountain Gasfort.

During the war, the Sardinians have lost more than two thousand people, not in battle, but from diseases such as cholera deaths in 2166 soldiers and officers. They were buried in the villages Kady-Koy and CIDA. In 1882 the Italians were allowed to rebury the dead in the same place on the mountain Gasfort. On top of the mountain erected a chapel in the elegant Lombard style, under the building which was equipped with vault. Next to the chapel was dug 40-meter well. Sardinians remains reburied in the necropolis, an area of ​​230 sq.m. The funds for the continued maintenance of the cemetery and the chapel was allocated by the Italian government. Unfortunately, the Italian Cemetery has repeatedly been desecrated and robbed.

During fierce fighting during World War II and the chapel of the necropolis were practically completely destroyed. After the war, in sorrow Gasfort discovered deposits of fluxing limestone, and started developing even more to destroy the Italian cemetery. Only in the 2004 Presidential Decree on the site of a former Italian cemetery at the expense of the Italian side built a memorial dedicated to the memory of soldiers of the Kingdom of Sardinia, who died during the Crimean War. The monument designed by the architect of Kiev Yu.Oleynika installed at the foot of the mountain. This four-sided stele, turning into an octahedron and ending with an octagonal pyramid. Catholic cross adorns the monument. The monument is a memorial plate, where Ukrainian and Italian applied: "Eternal memory of those killed in the Crimean War of 1855-1856 years. soldiers Sardinian kingdom. September 2004 ".