Ponte in Valtellina

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Ponte in Valtellina
coat of arms
Ponte in Valtellina (Italy)
Ponte in Valtellina
Country Italy
region Lombardy
province Sondrio  (SO)
Local name Punt
Coordinates 46 ° 11 ′  N , 9 ° 59 ′  E Coordinates: 46 ° 11 ′ 0 ″  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  E
height 500  m slm
surface 69 km²
Residents 2,252 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 33 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 23026
prefix 0342
ISTAT number 014052
Popular name Pontaschi, Trumbin
Patron saint Mauritius (Saint) ( September 22 )
Website Ponte in Valtellina
Municipality of Ponte in Valtellina in the province of Sondrio
Ponte in Valtellina
San Rocco church, fresco Deposizione (15th century)

Ponte in Valtellina is a village in the province of Sondrio in Lombardy , Italy . Ponte in Valtellina has 2252 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) on 69 km².

geography

The municipality is located near the border with the canton of Graubünden , Switzerland . The neighboring municipalities are Castello dell'Acqua, Chiuro, Montagna in Valtellina, Piateda, Teglio, Tresivio and Valbondione (BG).

Attractions

  • Parish Church of San Maurizio in Bernardino Luini Square built by Jacopo Corti from Valsolda ; the main portal is surmounted by a lunette with the fresco Madonna and Child with San Maurizio by the painter Bernardino Luini; on the right a large votive fresco with San Cristoforo (end of the 15th century). Inside in the first chapel to the right, a wooden altarpiece by Giacomo del Maino. The presbytery was renovated in Renaissance forms by Tommaso and Jacopo Rodari from Maroggia since 1498; an imposing tabernacle with a small temple by Francesco and Innocenzo Guicciardi from 1573 above the high altar.
  • Oratorium dei Disciplini preserves a cycle of frescoes with sibyls, saints and a fragmentary epiphany by the painter Fermo Stella.
  • Church of Sant'Ignazio (17th century) with fresco Sant'Ignazio che irradia la fede sulla quattro parti del mono by the painter Cesare Ligari.
  • Madonna di Campagna church (16th century) with a pronao with a high marble relief of the Annunciation (1593); inside a rare renaissance organ that was restored in the early nineties of the twentieth century; The fresco Madonna and Child (15th century) is located above the main altar .
  • Church of San Rocco with fresco Deposizione on the portal.
  • San Luigi Gonzaga pilgrimage church in the Sazzo fraction.
  • Ethnographic museum of peasant culture is located in the courtyard of the prisons. It consists of five rooms and collects the old tools for making cheese and butter, the winery recipients for making wine, collecting and processing grain, the tools for spinning wool and hemp, an antique bedroom and one Kitchen with old dishes.
  • Parish Museum - In addition to paintings and frescoes from the '400-'500 period, sacred vestments, furnishings and glasses of considerable value are on display.

Personalities

  • Francesco Saverio (Franz Xaver) Quadrio (born December 1, 1695 in Ponte in Valtellina; † November 21, 1756 in Milan ), entered the Jesuit order , was a language teacher in Padua , professor of theology in Bologna , then again professor in Padua, wrote Storia generale della poesia. , Left the order and fled to Zurich , pursued literary studies in Paris , maintained relations with Voltaire and was later librarian to the governor of Milan (Giovanni Luca Pallavicini); wrote Dissertazioni critico-storiche intorno alla Rezzia, oggi Valtellina. (Milan 1755–1756)
  • Giuseppe Piazzi (born July 16, 1746 in Ponte im Valtellina, † July 22, 1826 in Naples ) was a Catholic priest, astronomer and mathematician.
  • Enrico Guicciardi (1812-1895), politician and freedom fighter .

literature

Web links

Commons : Ponte in Valtellina  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ↑ Jacopo Corti di Valsolda architect on lombardiabeniculturali.it/architetture/autori/37059
  3. ↑ Celestino Trezzini: Francesco Saverio (Franz Xaver) Quadrio on biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz, p. 507, (accessed on October 18, 2017).