About 3-4 meters off the very narrow roadway.

A metal roadside sign about 4 ft by 5 ft.

A cemetery was located at this spot from 1945 to 1961.  Americans were buried here from 1945 to 1948 during which time, soldiers were either reburied at the Florence American Cemetery in Imprunta or repatriated to the United States.  This was the most northern US Cemetery in Italy and held about 1500 graves for US military killed in the Po Valley Campaign. After US Soldiers were removed, the cemetery consisted of about 300 German graves which were transferred to the German Military Cemetery at Passo della Futa in 1961.

COMUNE DI
MIRANDOLA

CIMITERO MILITARE AMERICANO
DI SAN MARTINO CARANO
(1945-1961)
"QUI FURONO SEPOLTI SOLDATI AMERICANI (FINO AL 1948), SOLDATI TEDESCHI E DI ALTRE NAZIONALITA'"

The translation in English:

TOWN OF

MIRANDOLA

AMERICAN MILITARY CEMETERY

AT SAN MARTINO CARANO

(1945-1961)

AMERICAN SOLDIERS WERE BURIED HERE (UNTIL 1948) AND GERMAN SOLDIERS 

AND FROM OTHER NATIONS