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Abstract: Between 1850 and 1940, in a land that for centuries had been a tongue of emerged land dedicated to agriculture and fishing on the upper board of Venice lagoon, a large number of fortifications had been built. At the same time with the moving of the boundary between empires in the Venician quadrant, Italy and Austro-Hungaric empire, Venice has been reinforced with a defensive system that occupies the land between the lagoon and the sea, nowadays the Peninsula of Cavallino-Treporti. Nineteen century fortifications, coastal batteries for cannons, mortars, howitzers were built in a short time, transforming this territory in a catalogue of the military architecture of that restless age. A narrow-gauge railway, telemetric towers and barracks still today mark this area. During the Second World War a new fortification will appear on this stage; less sophisticated and interesting of the previous built defences: the antiaircraft battery. With the end of the Second World War this enormous built legacy will lose its importance; the fortifications will be emptied, batteries will be abandoned, the railway will be, in a large part, dismantled. In less than a-hundred years the military city will born, live and disappear, leaving just some relicts, landed on the beaches of Cavallino-Treporti.