Belgirate

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Belgirate
Template: Infobox municipality in Italy / maintenance / coat of arms missingNo coat of arms available.
Belgirate (Italy)
Belgirate
Country Italy
region Piedmont
province Verbano-Cusio-Ossola  (VB)
Coordinates 45 ° 50 '  N , 8 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 50 '0 "  N , 8 ° 34' 0"  E
height 199  m slm
surface 8 km²
Residents 507 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 63 inhabitants / km²
prefix 0322
ISTAT number 103010
Popular name belgiratesi
Patron saint Presentation of the Lord ( February 2 )
Website Belgirate
Belgirate
Parish hall
Parish Church of Purificazione di Maria
Belgirate train station

Belgirate 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 municipality covers an area of ​​8  km² . The Carcioni group belongs to Belgirate . The neighboring municipalities are Besozzo , Brebbia , Ispra , Leggiuno , Lesa , Monvalle and Stresa .

history

As evidence of the ancient origin of the settlement, there are several archaeological finds of tombs with coins from the time of Emperor Augustus and a large Olpe from the 1st century AD. From Belgirate, the Roman consular road connected Severiana Augusta Mediolanum (today's Milan ) with Verbannus Lacus (Verbano or Lago Maggiore ) and from here with the Simplon Pass (Latin Summo Plano).

In the Middle Ages, the Belgirate was part of the Vergante feud from which it pursued the fate of the Visconti and eventually the noble Borromeo family , who received inauguration from 1441 until the end of feudalism in the 18th century. The oldest part of the city developed around the Romanesque church of Santa Maria (called the Old Church).

population

Population development
year 1861 1871 1881 1901 1921 1931 1951 1961 1971 1991 2001 2011 2017 2018
Residents 783 717 755 629 637 553 622 631 566 510 521 546 529 509

Attractions

  • The old church of Santa Maria or del Suffragio, first mentioned in the 13th century, preserves frescoes by the successors of Bernardino Luini (late 16th century) and preserves the bell tower of the 11th century.
  • Parish church Purificazione della Vergine from 1600 in Baroque style, built on the lake shore; inside there are frescoes by Luigi Morgari, stucco work by Luigi Secchi and the organ made by Bossi from Bergamo .
  • Medieval oratory of San Paolo
  • Villa Treves, taken over by publisher Emilio Treves in 1892, became the residence of several famous writers such as Edmondo De Amicis , Giuseppe Giacosa , Arrigo Boito , Gabriele D'Annunzio and Giovanni Verga .
  • Villa Carlotta
  • Villa Bono Cairoli preserves the plaque of Giuseppe Garibaldi's overnight stay on the facade .

Events

Belgirate has been the seat of the Premio Internazionale di Poesia Guido Gozzano since 1982 , which is organized by the local Pro Loco. The award, which is headed by professor and philosopher Pietro Prini until 2006, takes place every year in the Hotel Villa Carlotta.

tourism

In Belgirate, tourism has always been a very important activity, so much so that famous figures and famous writers have stayed there: Antonio Fogazzaro , Gustave Flaubert , Goethe , Ernest Hemingway , Antonio Rosmini , Thomas Mann , Alessandro Manzoni , George Bernard Shaw , Giovanni Verga and Stendhal , who wrote a few pages of the novel La Certosa di Parma here. The composer Richard Wagner and the orchestra conductor Arturo Toscanini spent their holidays here.

Sons and daughters of the church

literature

  • 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 .
  • Various authors: Piemonte (non compresa Torino). Touring Club Italiano, Milano 1976, p. 656, Belgirate online (Italian)

Web links

Commons : Belgirate  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Belgirate (Italian) on tuttitalia.it/piemonte
  • Belgirate (Italian) on piemonte.indettaglio.it/ita/comuni
  • Belgirate (Italian) on comuni-italiani.it
  • Belgirate on de.lagomaggiore.net, accessed November 26, 2015

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ↑ Chiesa vecchia di Santa Maria (Italian) on comune.belgirate.vb.it
  3. ↑ Chiesa parrocchiale della Purificazione della Vergine (Italian) on parrocchiadibelgirate.it
  4. ^ Oratorio San Paolo (Italian) on parrocchiadibelgirate.it