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If in Peaio you take the road
that leads to Vinigo from the main road "Statale 51", you'll find a
sign that remind us of the Vinigo's descent from Ladino. The sign says:
"Vinigo Paes Ladin" ("Vinigo Paese Ladino" in Italian). The name of
our village seems to stem from latin "Vicus", as said by Mario
Feruccio Belli in his book "Borca e Vodo nel Cadore". Instead, Maria
Teresa Sivieri, in her book "Vinego Paes Ladin", says that the name
stems from "Avinius", with the suffix "icu". From the book "Vinigo
nel 900": : It seems that Vinigo is one of the olderst settlements in
Cadore, but there aren't documents that gives us a certain date about
its origin. It is placed between two streams: at west Rudan that rises
from Antelao through Peaio, and at east Ruinan that rises from the
same mountain and flow into the Boite. Once Ruinan's waters operated
the millstones of three mills placed near the village. This position
allows Vinigo to be out of danger of landslides. In the first half of
the 900, the village was surrounded with fields. In these fields there
were crops of cereals, ryes, corns, barleys, potatoes,cabbages....
Soon afterward they left their place to meadows. Their hay served to
feed the stocks, that was raised here until the beginnig of the
Seveties. Presently the woods are getting more and more near the
village. For a long time people of the village found sustenance in the
agriculture, in the breeding and in the timber. In addition to all
these activities, in the first years of the twentieth century, men
worked as coppersmiths and glaziers, expecially in the winter. In the
second half of the twentieth century, the main source of work in the
valley were the glass-factories, that became the most important
resource of our economy. Young people left the fields to go working in
the factories. Vinigo, like all other villages here in Cadore, is also
a village with a lot of emigrants. There are two different kinds of
emigration. The first one is seasonal and is towards European
countries, like for example Germany and Holland. The second one is
final and is towards American countries, like United States and
Argentina. Therefore, it isn't strange that Vinigo's population
decreased from 359 residents in the 1929 to about 130 now. |
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