Patron saint festival In 60 days
Feast of Saint Lucy
📅 Every year, on 13 December
On 13 December Vodo Cadore celebrates its patroness Saint Lucy, to whom the town's church is dedicated, in the heart of the Cadore area.
Vodo di Cadore lies in the middle Boite valley at 910 metres, on the Alemagna road, hemmed in by two Dolomite massifs: the Antelao, 3264 metres, and the Pelmo, 3168. At the foot of the Pelmo stands the Venezia refuge, the base for climbing it, and lower down the Talamini refuge; Alta Via number one of the Dolomites passes by both. Above the village survive the old mountain dairies of Ciàuta and Rutorto, where milk was worked.
The name probably comes from the Latin vadum, a ford, though given the shape of the ground some prefer to read it as a gully; in the Veneto, however, there are identical place names that meant a retting pit for flax and hemp. The first record is from 1240, written de Hodo. For forty-three years the village had a railway: the Dolomites line ran through here from 1921 to 1964, with the Vodo halt and the Peaio-Vinigo station. In 1960 a dam on the Boite formed the lake of Vodo, which feeds the Pontesei power stations.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Vodo Cadore, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa di San Marco 📍 Rovereto · 5.3 km The parish church of Marco di Rovereto, documented from 1180 and rebuilt after the First World War. Biotopo Lavini di Marco 📍 Rovereto · 6.8 km The landslide from Monte Zugna, with dinosaur trackways discovered in 1990 and two small lakes. chiesa di San Floriano 📍 Rovereto · 8.5 km The old mother church of Lizzana, parent of Rovereto's churches, with two sixteenth-century frescoes on the façade. Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km Rovereto's bell, cast from the bronze of every belligerent's cannon. sacrario militare di Castel Dante 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km The First World War ossuary on the hill above Rovereto, with about twenty thousand fallen of several nations. Castel Lizzana 📍 Rovereto · 9.0 km The scant remains of the Castelbarco castle above Lizzana, destroyed by the Venetians in 1439, in the memorial grounds.