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Caserma Ederle (Camp Ederle) is a United States Army post located in Vicenza, Italy. The post is the headquarters of the Southern European Task Force (SETAF) as well as of the 173d Airborne Brigade. Caserma Ederle serves as the headquarters of U.S. Army Garrison Vicenza, an umbrella for all U.S. properties in Vicenza. It is also the garrison for several important European-based U.S. military units. The post is named after Major Carlo Ederle, an Italian hero of World War I and recipient of the French War Cross, among other military honors.

The Vicenza Army Post, Caserma Ederle, is situated at the foot of the Dolomiti Alps South of the Alps in Northeastern Italy in the heart of the Po Valley, the largest and richest agricultural and industrial plain in Italy. The U.S. Army Post is about an hour from the Mediterranean beaches of the Adriatic Grado, Jesolo, Lignano, and Bibione). Vicenza is about an hour west of Venice by car or train and within a few hours west by car of Slovenia, Yugoslavia's first break away republic. Austria & Switzerland are both about 2 hours away to the north by car, while Croatia & Bosnia are several hours away to the east by car.

Europe's largest producer of textiles and the focus of Italy's "Silicon Valley", Vicenza is a very sleek city, where it can seem that every second car is a BMW. Modern prosperity hasn't ruined the look of Vicenza, though. The centre of the city, still partly enclosed by medieval walls, is an amalgam of Gothic and Classical buildings that today looks much as it did when the last major phase of construction came to an end at the close of the eighteenth century. This historic core is compact enough to be explored in a day, but the city and its environs really require a short stay to do them justice.

In 1404 Vicenza was absorbed by Venice, and the city's numerous Gothic palaces reflect its status as a Venetian satellite. But in the latter half of the sixteenth century the city was transformed by the work of an architect who owed nothing to Venice and whose rigorous but flexible style was to influence every succeeding generation - Andrea di Pietro della Gondola, alias Palladio.

The main street of Vicenza, the Corso Andrea Palladio , cuts right through the old centre from the Piazza del Castello down to the Piazza Matteotti, and is lined with palaces, all of them now occupied by shops, offices and banks.

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