Fifty years have passed since the 1976 earthquake and sixty since the 1966 flood: disasters that have profoundly marked the Friuli region. Disasters that are originally natural events: we define them as disasters when they endanger humans and what they have built. Floods, earthquakes, avalanches and landslides also become disasters due to a lack of adequate land management.

To remember, learn and reflect, the Geopark is presenting the exhibition Water, Air, Earth, Ice / When Natural Events Become Disasters, which will open in Tolmezzo, at Palazzo Frisacco, on Friday 27th February at 6 pm.

Set up on the two floors of Palazzo Frisacco, through images, period videos, documents and explanatory material involving a host of experts, the exhibition aims to raise public awareness of disaster prevention, with particular regard to the Friulian mountains, also taking into account the pressing variable of the ongoing climate crisis.

The exhibition will remain open and free to visit until 17 May during Palazzo Frisacco’s opening hours (details in the attached poster). The exhibition will be followed by many events throughout the region with in-depth discussions on specific topics.

This initiative is part of the GeoRISK project – living with hydrogeological instability and seismicity fifty years after the 1976 earthquake, funded by Interreg Italy/Austria 2021-27 CLLD.