Comune di Resia

The artistic heritage disappeared after the earthquake of 1976. Different habitations from the typical architecture went lost. Nowadays have remained just a few examples of rural buildings with arches and galleries made of wood in  the fraction of Stolvizza and in locality Coritis.  Different and  important anthropic signs left by man and by history as the ancient sundials placed, mostly in dalpeggio admissions (stavoli) exterior frescoes, among which stands out the one at Lambert House 18th century Stolvizza, recently restored, the furnaces and Mills scattered everywhere along the waterways of the Resia. Several representatives also works the Resia folk religiosity. His most important work is the wooden statue of Magbanua carved in 1535, the rest of a large altar that is preserved in the parish church of s. Maria Assunta in Prato. Its probably eighteenth-century Bell-Tower, was completed with the characteristic "onion" in 1824 by Peter Craighero of Paluzza. The Church of Oseacco, dating back to 1860, has saved the apse with Mosaic depicting the SS. Vito, Modesto e Crescenzia and produced by the school of Mosaicists Spilimbergo on Fred Pittino cardboard.
(Translation by Lara Micelli)

In Prato there is the monument dedicated to the War Dead that was opened in 1931. Placed, at first in the Square of the Tiglio, since 1956 has been included in the public garden of the same square. In the hamlet of San Giorgio, the War Memorial, located in the small garden in front of the Church, was built in 1975 and inaugurated by Mons. Alfredo Battisti, Archbishop of Udine. In the hamlet of Oseacco there are three votive chapels, built by the inhabitants of Oseacco, dedicated to the Madonna dating back to 1954. In the hamlet of Stolvizza there are two monuments to the fallen.
The first is located near the Church, on the edge of the road and was built in 1920.
The second was built in 1967 and is located at the entrance to the village square of Stolvizza. Here stands the monument dedicated to the Grinder which was placed there, in August 8, 1999; to remind this humble profession. The same was achieved by C.A.M.A.-Associative Committee dedicated to the Grinders’ Monument, with the willingness of 20.09.1997 8 knife grinders. The monument consists of a large boulder that wants to represent mount Canin with framed a prized bronze bas-relief depicting a cycling grinder.
(Translation by Lara Micelli)

The features that diversify the Resia Valley are represented by the cultural peculiarities, unique, that express themselves into music, dance and local songs, handed down from generation to generation and again, largely practiced by the community. The music, with the violin and the cello, introduced  in place of an instrument similar to bagpipes and dancing, rhythmic and captivating, accompanying events and traditional festivals and important occasions of life individual and community (religious ceremonies, weddings, party of conscripts, etc.). becoming an essential component indissoluble of the feast itself.  These interesting aspects can be discovered during the numerous events that take place during the year.  Stands out among all the events, the local carnival, that is among the best examples of genuine folk tradition, in addition to being one of the most archaic. This carnival was born as a propitiatory rite profane the fertility of new life cycles and seasonal, is now a popular event that involves the whole valley and attracts hundreds of visitors from all over Italy and from the adjoining Slovenia and Austria.
To guarantee the fun there is the puppet of straw and rags, kind of the festival, that provokes everybody  to have fun, confusing then in the crowd where jump colours and different sounds and the bells of the “beautiful white masks” that, with their coloured and flying ribbons , announce the arrival of springtime and flowered hats propitiate the luxuriance of the vegetation.  The carnival finishes the day of the Ashes, when the puppet is processed, condemned and burned,  as well as Kind Saturn in the roman saturnalia, who after having been the king of spree was scarified.  This conclusive ceremony has enriched of new contents during the years.  Original meaning of the ritual was to eliminate all that was old, sick,  contaminated transferring it to the puppet, represented in animal shape,  human or like a creature of the mythology that dying would have freed the community and the country from every evil.  In the evening, between blaze of some and the screams of pain of others, Carnival is burned, the scene of the killing is likely to be tragic, but it is still a liberating death, a necessary condition because life can be renewed. First, however, the crime is considered in a process which involves among other things, the Ministers of Justice and members of the church, which punish the carnival as represented by the established order, for the waves of chaos that resulted. The judgment of the claim is accompanied by a sermon and both before the death of the offender, expressing one hand, the moral judgment of the Church and on the other the civil court on the work.  The faults are rather of an economic nature and ethics. It recognizes the merit of the accused enjoyed the people who had attended the party, making them spend a lot of money. It then proceeds to light the fire, while one starts dancing around the fire. We must therefore awaken the gods groundwater. This is done by beating the ground with the feet so that the atonement of death ends with the rebirth of nature.
The character with vestments, at the end of this ceremony, when there are no more ashes of the puppet, he throws big handfuls from the pulpit  until the rite of regeneration can be concluded in each of its components.

(Translation by Lara Micelli)