They call it the balcony of Friuli, for where it stands: looking out over the plain from a rim of mountain. The name says the opposite, though: it appears in 1298 as Clauçedo and comes from the Latin clausus, closed, meaning an enclosed field or place. The church of San Giacomo is reached by a stairway of eighty-eight steps, and inside it keeps an eighteenth-century relic brought from Venice, ascribed to the Most Precious Blood: until the mid twentieth century it drew pilgrims from all over Italy and from northern Europe, then the devotion faded almost entirely.
Below, the mountain is riddled with holes: the green caves of Pradis were dug out by a stream, and around them are the ravine of the Rio Molat with its waterfall and the gorges of the Cosa. At Val da Ros there is a small Italian-German war cemetery, where the dead of the two armies lie side by side. In 1976 the Friuli earthquake caused huge collapses here.
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📅 Every year, on 25 July
On 25 July Clauzetto, a municipality of 390 inhabitants in the province of Pordenone, celebrates its patrons Saints Martin and James (santi Martino e Giacomo).
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Outside Clauzetto, but an easy day trip away.
