Arona (Piedmont)
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| Country | Italy | |
| region | Piedmont | |
| province | Novara (NO) | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 45 ' N , 8 ° 34' E | |
| height | 212 m slm | |
| surface | 14 km² | |
| Residents | 13,976 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density | 998 inhabitants / km² | |
| Post Code | 28041 | |
| prefix | 0322 | |
| ISTAT number | 003008 | |
| Popular name | Aronesi | |
| Patron saint | San Graziano | |
| Website | Arona | |
Arona ( Piedmontese and Lombard Arùna ) is a northern Italian city with 13,976 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the Piedmont region , on the southwestern shore of Lake Maggiore . It is a tourist place .
The neighboring municipalities are: Angera ( VA ), Comignago , Dormelletto , Invorio , Meina , Oleggio Castello and Paruzzaro .
history
In the era of Roman rule, Arona was a military base. The city has belonged to the Archbishops of Milan since the 11th century . After Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa had Milan destroyed in 1162, many exiles fled to Arona. In the 12th century Arona fell to the Torriani family , and in 1277 to the Visconti . At the beginning of the 14th century the city became a free commune under the suzerainty of the Benedictine abbey founded in the 11th century and consecrated to Saints Gratianus and Felinus. Duke Filippo Maria Visconti of Milan handed Arona over to Vitaliano I Borromeo as a fief in 1439 and raised him six years later to Count of Arona. In 1743 the city came to the Kingdom of Sardinia .
During the Second World War , after Italy left the war in September 1943, the massacre on Lake Maggiore led to the first mass murders of Jews in Italy , with residents of Meina , Arona and Baveno on the Piedmontese west bank of the lake being particularly affected.
Attractions
North of Arona, on the Sacro Monte di Arona, is the Sancarlone , a colossal statue of Charles Borromeo built on a 14 meter high granite base and more than 23 meters high . Commissioned by Cardinal Federico Borromeo in 1614, the statue was the largest indoor walk-in statue in the world for almost 200 years from its completion in 1697 to the construction of the Statue of Liberty in 1886. Karl Borromeo was born in Arona Castle, built in 984, which was largely destroyed in 1674 by a fire and later by Napoleon's troops . Today only ruins can be seen above the city.
Other sights of Arona include the collegiate church and the church of Santa Maria di Loreto, completed in 1592 .
Population development
Town twinning
sons and daughters of the town
- Karl Borromeo (1538–1584), cardinal and saint of the Catholic Church
- Carlo Boniforti (1818–1879), composer, organist and music teacher
- Maurilio Fossati (1876–1965), Archbishop of Turin and Cardinal
- Claudio Caligari (1948–2015), film director and screenwriter
- Giacomo Corneo (* 1963), economist
- Daniele Negroni (* 1995), Italian-German singer, DSDS participant
literature
- Rodolfo Huber: Arona. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 19, 2001 .
- Celestino Trezzini : Arona (Peace from). In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 1, Ardutius - Basel , Attinger, Neuchâtel 1921, p. 444 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Verbanensia.org
- Arona on de.lagomaggiore.net, accessed November 25, 2015
- Arona (Piedmont) on the ETHorama platform
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
- ↑ Arona on gedenkorte-europa.eu, the homepage of Gedenkorte Europa 1939–1945