Valfurva

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Valfurva
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Valfurva (Italy)
Valfurva
Country Italy
region Lombardy
province Sondrio  (SO)
Local name Forba
Coordinates 46 ° 27 ′  N , 10 ° 25 ′  E Coordinates: 46 ° 27 ′ 0 ″  N , 10 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  E
height 1339  m slm
surface 215.9 km²
Residents 2,551 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 12 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 23030
prefix 0342
ISTAT number 014073
Popular name Valfurvesi
Patron saint Nicholas of Myra ( December 6th )
Website Valfurva
Valfurva municipality in the province of Sondrio
Santa Caterina Valfurva
Church of Santissima Trinità: interior
Church of Santissima Trinità: Nicholas of Myra
Mountain chapel Madonna Addolorata

Valfurva is a northern Italian municipality ( comune ) with 2551 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Sondrio in Lombardy .

geography

The municipality is located about 53 kilometers northeast of Sondrio and borders directly on the provinces of Brescia , Bolzano and Trento ( Trentino-South Tyrol ). Valfurva is the easternmost municipality in the province and, together with the neighboring municipality of Bormio, a well-known ski area. The neighboring municipalities are Bormio, Martell (BZ), Peio (TN), Ponte di Legno (BS), Sondalo , Stilfs (BZ) and Valdisotto .

Toponomics

The old name of the village of Sant'Antonio, Furva or Furvaplana, has been expanded to define and identify the entire valley. A peculiarity of the Valfurva is only the task of some old place names to take the name of the holy titular of the church: Just like Sant'Antonio, who lost the name Furva, Flodraglio was called San Nicolò, Zurdo became San Gottardo and Magliavacca Santa Caterina.

Districts

Santa Caterina Valéfurva

Santa Caterina is a well-known residence of Deborah Compagnoni ski champion. There are winter sports such as Nordic and downhill skiing; the paths with snowshoes or skis are numerous and immersed in lush vegetation. Some routes can reach 3000 meters. The population is 250.

Madonna dei Monti

Madonna dei Monti (approx. 750 inhabitants) is a fraction and a parish of the Valfurva, which consists of nine parishes, which extend at an altitude between 1400 and 1700 m on the sunny right side of the valley at the mouth of the Val Zebrù. Starting from below, the houses of Paris, Adam, Plazzòla, Canéreglia, Niblogo, Noàl, Cadalberto, Fantelle and Plazzanecco meet, villages that have largely retained their original features and are of considerable architectural and ethnographic interest.

The typical architecture of the old mansions of the Madonna dei Monti differs from the houses in the valley floor due to Germanic influences. Presumably these inhabited centers were founded by Walser people who were built in these valleys in search of new lands to colonize or by groups of Bavarian-Tyrolean miners who were engaged in the exploitation of the iron ore mines of Val Zebrù.

Sant'Antonio

Sant'Antonio (about 1462 inhabitants) is a part of the valley that houses one of the original nuclei of the country, where the schools are now located. There is also the important church of Sant'Antonio abate. On January 17th we will celebrate the famous event in his honor.

Teregua

The Teregua fraction preserves the beautiful church of Santissima Trinità. The fresco of the Holy Trinity is located in a lunette above the entrance door ; in the apse are strange frescoes (1546) by the painter Vincenzo de Barberis from Brescia . The pictorial history is dominated by the iconography of the Trinity and the four evangelists, but also pays tribute to popular love: Saints Agatha , Agnes of Rome , Lucia of Syracuse , Barbara of Nicomedia and Catherine of Alexandria appear near Saint George (Saint ) , Anthony the Great , Rochus of Montpellier and Nicholas of Myra .

In the summer of 2004, to the surprise of many of the 3,142 people, the Trinity of Teregua was considered the place of the heart who claimed its salvation. The little church took fourth place in the national ranking of the second census of the FAI (Italian Environment Fund). On October 25, 2005, the Teregua Association was created to fully restore the monument in order to give the community a valuable testimony of faith, history and art.

Uzza

In Uzza, the 15th century church of San Rocco is in all its beauty.

history

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In the 14th and 15th centuries. Valfurva is an important transit point that connects the Republic of Venice and the County of Bormio through the Gavia Valley, thus favoring the development of profitable business relationships. Over the centuries Valfurva has followed the history and fate of Magnifica Terra, the small autonomous republic of Bormio, which has managed to maintain and promote a thriving commercial activity over the centuries.

Santa Caterina Valfurva becomes a famous spa town from the seventeenth century. Thanks to the springs of ferrous water discovered in 1698 by the parish priest Don Baldassare Bellotti. The springs that flow from the underground are two: the source of sulphurous water, which is rich in sulfur, and the source of the Akua-Forta , which is impregnated with iron and has a sour and spicy taste.

It is water with remarkable therapeutic properties, whose fame soon surpassed the valley's borders; many come from the degrees of Mortirolo and Gavia, especially nobles and nobles. The country is slowly beginning to change and become more hospitable; the spring is beautified and to protect it an unusual Gothic wooden pavilion is built, a unique work very different from typical mining structures. In 1835, a real bottling facility for the amazing Akua Forta was opened in Santa Caterina Valfurva, which became so famous that it was exported abroad.

After the end of the rule in 1797, the fate of the Contado followed and became part of Lombardy. In 1816, after the valley was first divided into two separate municipalities, all the districts of the single municipality of Valfurva were included, as they had already gathered under the old regime. Among the economic activities, among the traditional ones associated with mountain agriculture, breeding and a poor trade through the Gaviapass , in the second half of the nineteenth century the first tourist activities were: mountaineering and healing with the healthy ferruginous waters.

tourism

The Grand Hotel Santa Caterina provided the first mountaineers, mostly English and German, a comfortable base from which to scale the fascinating mountains that crown the Valfurva, as well as a comfortable and refined home for the elite who chose treatments using the famous waters. Tourism, which is still in its infancy, will then become the leading industry for the entire valley, forgetting another activity that complements agriculture: the shoemaker, a seasonal immigrant in the countries of northern Italy. Of this ancient practice there is only a study of its characteristic jargon for linguists: al plat di scióbar .

Attractions

  • Church of Santissima Trinità in the Teregua district contains important frescoes (1546) by Francesco de Barberis from Brescia .
  • Parish church of San Nikolaus von Myra in the district of San Nicolò, with painting Santissima Trinità (XVII century) by GB and Giovan Paolo Recchi from Como .
  • Church of San Rocco in the Uzza district with a large fresco of San Cristoforo (XV century).
  • Museo vallivo della Valfurva founded in 1974.

Personalities

literature

  • Anna Ferrari-Bravo, Paola Colombini: Guida d'Italia. Lombardia (esclusa Milano). Milano 1987, p. 402.
  • Lombardia - Touring club italiano, Touring Editore (1999), ISBN 88-365-1325-5 , Valfurva Online
  • Valfurva on tuttitalia.it/lombardia

Web links

Commons : Valfurva  - 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.