Casso (''Cas'' in local dialect, ''Sćjas'' in
Friulan
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) is an Italian village, ''
frazione
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'' of
Erto e Casso, in the
Province of Pordenone
The province of Pordenone ( it, provincia di Pordenone; ; vec, provincia de Pordenon) was a province in the autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia in Italy. Its capital was the city of Pordenone. The province was subdivided from the province ...
. Its population is 35. Together with Erto, its administrative seat, it forms the municipality of Erto-Casso.
Geography
The village is situated in
Friuli
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, close to the borders with the
Province of Belluno,
Veneto
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. It was built under the
Salta
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mountain, in front of the
Toc mountain, upon the
Vajont river valley. Linked with a street to the National Road 251, it is 3 km from
Erto, 4 from
Castellavazzo and 5 from
Longarone.
History
Early history
First mentioned in 1332, it was stably inhabited from 1558 by
lumberjack
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s from the
province of Belluno. The colloquial language spoken in Casso is the ''bellunese'', a
Venetian
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* Venice, a city in Italy
* Veneto, a region of Italy
* Republic of Venice (697–1797), a historical nation in that area
Venetian and the like may also refer to:
* Venetian language, a Romance language s ...
dialect. Historically and culturally different from Erto, in which is spoken a
Ladin dialect, Casso also belongs to the
Diocese of Belluno-Feltre
The Diocese of Belluno-Feltre ( la, Dioecesis Bellunensis-Feltrensis) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in the Veneto, northern Italy, organized in its current form in 1986. From 1197 to 1762, and again from 1818 to 1986, the Diocese ...
, different from
the one of Erto.
The Vajont disaster
Situated upon the
Vajont Dam
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, Casso was one of the villages involved in the disaster of October 9, 1963. Partly damaged as Erto, the village vas evacuated and in 1971 its population was transferred in
Vajont, a new municipality built near
Maniago
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. In 1966 some of the inhabitants occupied again their houses to reform the village, as done in Erto, and the ''
comune
The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces ('' province''). The can ...
''.
Infos about the Vajont disaster on municipal website
References
External links
Erto e Casso municipal website
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Frazioni of the Province of Pordenone