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Livinallongo del Col di Lana

Province: Belluno · Region: Veneto · Population: 1,384 · Postal code: 32020

The village has three names and each says something different: in Ladin it is Fodóm, from the beech; in German Buchenstein, that is the beech and the rock, which is the castle of Andraz; in Italian Livinallongo, from the Ladin livinàl, the landslide gully, because the valley of the Cordevole here is narrow and long. Geologists have called «Livinallongo formation» a kind of rock that outcrops here.

On 17 April 1916 the Italian army blew up a mine under the summit of the Col di Lana: the mountain slid and about one hundred and fifty Austro-Hungarian soldiers died. Until then Livinallongo had been Tyrolean, and in 1923 it passed to the province of Belluno together with Cortina d'Ampezzo and Colle Santa Lucia. Half the inhabitants still speak Ladin.

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Getting there

Nearest airport: Treviso, 94 km away
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Near Livinallongo del Col di Lana

The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.

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Places to see within 25 km

Outside Livinallongo del Col di Lana, but an easy day trip away.

Museo storico militare Brigata Catanzaro 📍 Catanzaro · 7.8 km Catanzaro museum of the Catanzaro Brigade: arms, uniforms and relics from Napoleon to the Second World War. Chiesa di Sant'Omobono 📍 Catanzaro · 9.0 km Catanzaro church with Norman-Byzantine features, described as the oldest place of worship in the city. Basilica dell'Immacolata Concezione 📍 Catanzaro · 9.3 km Catanzaro basilica built in 1254, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, patron of the city. Chiesa del Santissimo Rosario 📍 Catanzaro · 9.5 km Fifteenth-century church in Catanzaro, consecrated in 1499, with a Baroque mother-of-pearl altar. Villa Margherita 📍 Catanzaro · 9.7 km Catanzaro's oldest public garden, of 1881, with an archaeological museum, a library and a view over the gulf. Castello normanno-svevo di Nicastro 📍 Lamezia Terme · 16 km Medieval castle on the hill of San Teodoro in Nicastro, with cylindrical towers and a pentagonal keep.