The patron of Vajont is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, celebrated on 14 September.
In 2014 the municipality named its public library after the Friulian writer Carlo Sgorlon, who told the story of the 1963 tragedy in his 1987 novel "L'ultima valle" (The Last Valley); Sgorlon had visited the town in 1997, inviting the community to build itself a new story rooted in its own traditions.