Longarone is a town and
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on the banks of the
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in
province of BellunoThe Province of Belluno is a province in the Veneto region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Belluno.It has an area of 3,678 km², and a total population of 209,550 .-Geography:...
in North-East
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. It is situated 20
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from the city of
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and is 473 metres above sea level.
Inhabitants of Longarone are known as
Longaronesi, and there are 4,122 people living in the village as of a recent census. The area of the village is 103.5 km
2 with a density of 35 inhabitants per square kilometre.
Longarone is a town and
comuneIn Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division of both provinces and regions, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.- Importance and function :...
on the banks of the
PiavePiave is a river in north Italy. It begins in the Alps and flows southeast for 220 km into the Adriatic Sea near the city of Venice....
in
province of BellunoThe Province of Belluno is a province in the Veneto region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Belluno.It has an area of 3,678 km², and a total population of 209,550 .-Geography:...
in North-East
ItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
. It is situated 20
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from the city of
BellunoBelluno is a town in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Located about 80 kilometers north of Venice, Belluno is the capital of the province of Belluno and the most important city in the Dolomiti's region. With its roughly 35,000 inhabitants, it the largest populated area of Valbelluna...
and is 473 metres above sea level.
Inhabitants of Longarone are known as
Longaronesi, and there are 4,122 people living in the village as of a recent census. The area of the village is 103.5 km
2 with a density of 35 inhabitants per square kilometre. 4,642 people work altogether in Longarone, which is 112.62% of the total population, with most actual inhabitants working within the village.
The village was destroyed in the
VajontThe Vajont Dam is a disused dam, completed in 1959 in the valley of the Vajont river under Monte Toc, 100 km north of Venice, Italy. It was responsible for the deaths of approximately 2,000 people in a 1963 landslide....
disaster on October 9, 1963, when a landslide from
Monte TocMonte Toc is a mountain on the border between Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia in Northern Italy best known for the Vajont Dam, which was built at the mountain's base in 1960....
forced 50 million cubic metres of water over the top of the
Vajont DamThe Vajont Dam is a disused dam, completed in 1959 in the valley of the Vajont river under Monte Toc, 100 km north of Venice, Italy. It was responsible for the deaths of approximately 2,000 people in a 1963 landslide....
. Longarone lay in the immediate path of the wave of mud and water which swept into the
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below. 1,909 villagers were killed.
Longarone was rebuilt following the tragedy and is now once again a thriving community. The fortieth anniversary of the disaster was marked, in October 2003, by a commemorative ceremony in Longarone attended by
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.
External links
- Homepage for Longarone comune (in Italian
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)