The name simply means the middle one: it comes from the Slovene srednji, and appears as early as 1242 as villa de Striena. The territory opens like a fan from Monte Cum down towards the valley floor, between two watercourses, and one of them, the Judrio, is today the state border with Slovenia. Together with Oblizza and the two Tribil, Stregna belonged to the Bank of Merso, one of the two assemblies that until the fall of Venice administered and judged these valleys on their own.
The buildings still say it in Slovene: the kazon is the byre with its hayloft, the senik the hay barn, the kozolec the drying rack, and on the covered balconies of the eighteenth-century courtyards the frames where grain was dried are still in place. Along Monte Cum, meanwhile, ran the last defensive line before the Friulian plain: a military road climbed from Castelmonte to the Solarie pass among trenches and caverns, and in the Fortino cave, above Tribil di Sotto, the reinforced concrete loopholes of a machine-gun post can still be seen. On the morning of the twenty-fourth of October 1917 Caporetto began, and the shelling reached here too.
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📅 Every year, on 25 January
On 25 January Stregna celebrates the Conversion of Saint Paul, the town's patron; its calendar includes the kries of Saint John and the Burnjak, the chestnut festival.
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