The dam is still standing, intact. A practical guide to the Vajont memorial sites between Longarone, Fortogna, Erto and Casso: 2026 opening times, prices and guided-tour dates, and how to visit with respect.
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For one week every August, Cortina d’Ampezzo stops being a ski resort and becomes a village that plays. The 48th Fèŝta de ra Bàndes brings over 25 bands and folk groups to town, ending with a grand parade along Corso Italia on Sunday 30 August.
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Everyone knows Falzarego means “false king”. The sources say otherwise: behind the Ampezzan name El Fouzàrgo lies fòuze, “sickle”. Etymology and legend, kept apart.
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Four letters and two thousand years. The name of the Passo Giau commemorates no saint and no family: it simply says what the place is. From Latin iŭgum to the Ladin forms giou and giau, the story of a pass that was a crossing, a pasture and a contested border.
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The name Staulanza comes from «stavolo», the seasonal high-mountain dwelling that made it possible to live and work on the pastures for part of the year. The Treccani documents it and explicitly names the pass: behind a col crossed today by cars and bicycles survives the memory of the working mountain.
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ARMONIE 2017 – La rincorsa del torrente. Starting on Tuesday 1 August at 11.00am, the summer music festival that[…]
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Four days of Belluno Alpini on the Ligurian Riviera — from the Trebbia Valley to the carruggi of Chiavari, between[…]
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Chantal Ramona Veit’s flute wins the “International Music Competition City of Belluno 2026” and conquers Belluno: an academic and Young[…]
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