Patron saint festival In 306 days
Feast of San Rocco
📅 Every year, on 16 August
On 16 August Cavazzo Carnico, a municipality of 1,087 inhabitants in the province of Udine, celebrates its patron San Rocco.
On 26 May 1928 an earthquake destroyed most of the village. They rebuilt it quickly but to anti-seismic standards, concrete in the load-bearing structures, iron ties and reinforcements: when the Friuli earthquake came on 6 May 1976, Cavazzo suffered fresh damage but not a single death.
In the Second World War Carnia was occupied by the Cossacks who had arrived with operation Ataman, and at Cavazzo there were more than two thousand of them: they renamed the village Krasnodar, after the city they came from. Lake Cavazzo, the largest natural lake in the region, lies lower than the Tagliamento and for half a century has not frozen in winter: the water is moved continually by the hydroelectric plant of Somplago.
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Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola 📍 Carpi · 11 km Jesuit church of 1670-1682 in Carpi, on a Greek-cross plan, with scagliola altars and the diocesan museum. Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carpi · 11 km Carpi cathedral begun in 1514 to Peruzzi's design, reopened in 2017 after the 2012 earthquake. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello 📍 Carpi · 12 km Romanesque pieve of 1184, the oldest church in Carpi, with a Peruzzi façade and twelfth-century frescoes. Chiesa di San Bernardino da Siena 📍 Carpi · 12 km Patron church of Carpi, begun in 1604, with the reliquary bust of Saint Bernardino of Siena.