Croci, libertà religiosa e simboli sulle vette: una riflessione sociologica

This contribution presents summit crosses as cultural objects of artistic and landscape value, as well as of humble affection for individuals and communities, but above all as markers of the territory in the perspective of tourist promotion-commercialisation. Their contestation in the communicative and public sphere illustrates that typical mechanism of religious freedom that, in the contemporary context, opposes freedom of religion to freedom from religion.