I Percorsi della Memoria

The Paths of Memory are a manifestation created by the Association "Vajont, the Future of Memory" to promote the memory of the disaster of October 9, 1963.

It is also known as the Vajont Walk: it is a hike that winds through stretches of roads interrupted or destroyed in the Vajont disaster, which historically served as arteries connecting the valley of Piave, that of Vajont and the Valcellina, and the paths, such as ancient ways of communication on foot for the people of Casso, Erto, Castellavazzo, and Longarone.

The event, which takes place at the end of September and attracts thousands of people from all over Italy, is therefore a suggestive step back in time, allowing participants to cross the places and visit artifacts, usually inaccessible to the public, that characterized one of the most dramatic pages of our history.

For the 2025 edition, due to extraordinary maintenance work on the Via del Colomber, which connects on the left bank the village of Dogna with the tube bridge in front of the dam on the gorge of Vajont, the organization had to modify the course of the Paths.

To ensure passage over the tube bridge, the route ventures into the gorge of Vajont following an ancient path that rises along the right bank, until reaching the disused clay pit in the Pascoli area.

From here the route continues into the gorge of Vajont, always on the right bank, along the service tunnels of ENEL, which overlook the increasingly deep and narrow gorge through openings in the rock, until reaching the tube bridge.