Erto e Casso is a “scattered” municipality in the province of Pordenone that includes both the principal centre Erto and the hamlet Casso which rises on the slopes facing the landslide of monte Toc.
The two borgos differ significantly in history, language and traditions. However, they have two elements in common: their unusual architecture in local pink stone which prompted their designation as national monuments; and the Vajont disaster of 1963 which affected them both tragically.
Hanging above the sheer drops over the Vajont reservoir, Casso is a village from the past, half ruined and almost entirely uninhabited: only a few very simple houses survived the wave of water that overwhelmed the settlement. Ertohas two distinct parts: the residential centre, rebuilt after Vajont, and the historical centre, a borgo of stone houses that stretches out along two parallel streets in the lower part of the village.
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