21 August 2008

A walk in Erto



This is Erto, a pretty mountains village quite close to Concordia. Erto, together with its neighbouring village Casso, is sadly famous in Italy for a big tragedy occured in 1963, when a piece of mountain fell into the artificial lake made by the Vajont Dam and caused a tsunami wave that submerged and swept away many villages: among these Erto.

4 comments:

magiceye said...

interesting post...

the thumbnail pic looked like a mumbai city pic!

Saretta said...

I saw a black and white movie about that dam disaster...do you happen to remember the movie title? It was an amazing movie and an amazing disaster! I didn't realize that's where Concordia Sagittaria is located.

vero said...

Erto? I have read book a ok of Mauro Corona When he speak about Erto

arno said...

check out history channel or check there web site just google it.
Arno