Baveno

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Baveno
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Baveno (Italy)
Baveno
Country Italy
region Piedmont
province Verbano-Cusio-Ossola  (VB)
Coordinates 45 ° 54 '  N , 8 ° 30'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 54 '20 "  N , 8 ° 30' 0"  E
height 205  m slm
surface 17 km²
Residents 4,961 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 292 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 28831
prefix 0323
ISTAT number 103008
Popular name bavenesi
Patron saint Gervasius and Protasius ( June 19 )
Website Baveno
Baveno and its granite quarries in the background

Baveno is a municipality on the west bank of Lake Maggiore in the Italian province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (VB) in the Piedmont region .

geography

The community lies at an altitude of 205 m above sea level. M. The municipality covers an area of ​​17  km² . Its factions are Feriolo, Oltrefiume, Romanico, Roncaro and Loita. The neighboring municipalities are Gravellona Toce , Stresa and Verbania .

history

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.

population

Number of inhabitants
year 1861 1871 1881 1901 1921 1931 1951 1961 1971 1991 2001 2011 2017 2018
Residents 1,423 1,812 2,300 2,508 2,726 2,959 3,489 3,827 4.231 4,510 4,554 4,817 4,866 4,883

Ventures

In the mountains protruding into the village, such as B. the local mountain Monte Camossio, pink granite is mined and partially processed on site. The stone from Baveno was used in the construction of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in Milan and the Basilica of San Paolo in Rome . The sculpture Il lago e le montagne on the bank promenade of Baveno, conceived by the architect Fabrizio Bianchetti in 1997, shows the various natural stones of green, white and pink granite and silver gneiss from the region in the form of mountain peaks .

tourism

Baveno has been established as a holiday resort since the 19th century and offers numerous tourist accommodation and the corresponding infrastructure, from bed & breakfast to grand hotels. The publicly accessible Villa Fedora with its large park as well as the church "SS Gervasio e Protasio" from the 18th century and a baptistery from the 11th century with a portico from the 16th century are worth seeing . From the ship landing stage with an old Art Nouveau building , various lines connect the place with the offshore Borromean Islands and other places on the lake.

Attractions

  • Santi Gervaso e Protaso
    Parish Church of Santi Gervaso e Protaso and Stations of the Cross.
  • 5th century baptistery.
  • Morandi house from the 18th century.
  • Villa Fedora built in 1857 and bought by the composer Umberto Giordano .
  • Villa Branca occupied by Queen Victoria (United Kingdom) for the holidays.
  • Villa Della Casa today Villa Bionda built in 1875 by the Swiss architect Augusto Guidini for the entrepreneur Nicola Della Casa.
  • Villa Mussi in the Oltrefiume district housed the poet Marino Moretti for a long time .

photos

  • Baveno, Municipio

  • Church “SS Gervasio e Protasio”, baptistery

  • overall view

  • Cloister

  • Ferry office, Art Nouveau

  • Promenade, view of Verbania

  • Beach

  • Sculpture IL LAGO E LE MONTAGNE

  • Feriolo with Mont 'Orfano

literature

  • Various authors: Piemonte (non compresa Torino). Guida D'Italia, Milano 1976, p. 660, Baveno online (Italian)
  • Various authors: Comuni della Provincia del Verbano-Cusio-Ossola. Consiglio Regionale del Piemonte, Chieri 2012, ISBN 9788896074503 .
  • Various authors: Il Piemonte paese per paese. Bonechi Editore, Firenze 1996, ISBN 88-8029-156-4 .

Web links

Commons : Baveno  - album with pictures, 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. ↑ Baveno on gedenkorte-europa.eu, the homepage of Gedenkorte Europa 1939–1945