On October 9, 1963, Mount Toc falls into the artificial lake created by the Vajont dam, 270 million cubic meters of rock descend at 110 kilometers per hour and push the water out of the basin.
A wave that exceeds the dam by 250 meters hits the village of Longarone, annihilating it and causing the death of 1917 people.
The task of the reconstruction plan of the country was entrusted to Giuseppe Samonà who carried it out and presented it and it was approved on May 14, 1964, the architects involved were Costantino Dardi, Emilio Mattioni and Valeriano Pastor, Gianni Avon, Francesco Tentori and Edoardo Gellner, the church was entrusted to Giovanni Michelucci.
The result was a total distortion of the viability and the reconstruction of a Longarone that the inhabitants, already hard tested by the tragedy, did not recognize and did not approve.
Perhaps too ambitious from a formal point of view, excessively modern projects with great use of reinforced concrete marked a huge distance between the new Longarone and the one before the disaster.
You can imagine with what state of mind the surviving inhabitants began their new life in the new Longarone.
The dam remained intact, perhaps ideally, it would have been right to break it down and definitively take it out of the eyes of the citizens of these countries tortured by this disaster.