Brugnato

Brugnato
Country	Italy
region	Liguria
province	La Spezia  (SP)
Coordinates	44 ° 14 '  N , 9 ° 44'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 14 '12 "  N , 9 ° 43' 31"  E
height	150  m slm
surface	11.96 km²
Residents	1,290 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	108 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	19020
prefix	0187
ISTAT number	011007
Popular name	Brugnatesi
Patron saint	San Pasquale (May 17th)
Website	www.comune.brugnato.sp.it
Panorama of Brugnato

Brugnato (in Ligurian : Brignê ) is an Italian commune with 1290 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the Liguria region . It belongs to the province of La Spezia .

geography

The place is about 20 km northwest of the provincial capital La Spezia , about 65 km southeast of the regional capital Genoa and about 344 km northwest of the Italian capital Rome in the climatic classification of Italian municipalities in zone D, 1 663 GG.

Brugnato is located on the Vara River in the Val di Vara in an extensive alluvial plain at the foot of the Ligurian Apennines . The confluence of the Gravegnola and Chicciola streams with the Vara is located near the municipality . Brugnato forms part of the Comunità Montana della Media e Bassa Val di Vara and is also part of the Montemarcello-Magra Natural Park .

The only district (Frazione) of the municipality is Bozzolo (276 m, approx. 30 inhabitants, located approx. 1 km northwest). It came under the Brugnato municipal administration in 1956, before it belonged to Zignago.

The neighboring municipalities are Borghetto di Vara , Rocchetta di Vara , Sesta Godano and Zignago .

history

Cattedrale dei Ss. Pietro, Lorenzo e Colombano

The place originated in the 7th century as the abbey of the monks of San Colombano. From the 8th century, the place is mentioned in several diplomas, including Charles III. , Otto III. and Heinrich II. Innocent II elevated the place to a diocese , which lasted until 1820. Since 999 the place was allowed to call itself a city. The place, which is under the protection of the Republic of Genoa , was saved by the Republic of Genoa in 1215 against attempts to take over the Malaspina and installed the Fieschi family as governors. After the Ghibellines took over as rulers of Genoa in 1313, the lords of Brugnato fled to Pontremoli . Thereafter, the Malaspina took over the place until the 16th century, who gave it to the Fregoso as a feudal system . With the popular uprising of 1530, the place returned to Genoa. In 1820 the diocese was incorporated into that of Luni-Sarzana, which became part of the La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato diocese from 1929 .

Culture

In 2007 Brugnato was awarded the Bandiera Arancione by the Touring Club Italiano , which recognizes outstanding quality in the fields of nature and tourism. In addition, the municipality, as the thirteenth Ligurian village, was included in the I borghi più belli d'Italia (The Most Beautiful Places in Italy).

Attractions

Convento dei Padri Passionisti (Ex-Chiesa di San Francesco)

Ponte Romano , also called Ponte Romanico , on the Vara River

• Cattedrale dei Ss. Pietro, Lorenzo e Colombano , cathedral or co-cathedral from the 11th or 12th century, which emerged from a basilica from the 8th century.
• Chiesa dell'Accola , church from the time of the Lombards near Borghetto di Vara, received structural changes in the 15th century and contains frescoes from the 17th and 18th centuries. Century ( Madonna col Bambino, Sant'Antonio Abate e San Giovanni Battista and Madonna addolorata e Santi )
• Convento dei Padri Passionisti , construction of a Franciscan convent completed in 1635 . Contains paintings from the 17th / 18th centuries. Century and was taken over by the Order of the Passionists in 1843 .
• Museo Diocesano in the Palazzo Vescovile (bishop's palace from the 14th century), contains an altarpiece ( Madonna del Rosario, San Pietro e San Domenico ) by Cesare Corte by Giuseppe Vermiglio, the work Orazione di Gesù nell'orto and the Lactatio di San Bernardo by Gian Lorenzo Bertolotto.
• Oratorio di San Bernardo , oratorio in the town center, which was previously dedicated to Santa Maria Annunziata and was given its current name around 1610.
• Oratorio dei Santi Rocco e Caterina , oratory near the Porta Sottana, only parts of the facade still exist today.
• Ponte Romano , also called Ponte Romanico , ancient bridge near Brugnato on the medieval connection road from Pontremoli to Sestri Levante . The bridge is probably of Roman origin, the oldest document about the bridge dates from 1660, when the bridges had to be repaired after a flood.
• Santuario di Nostra Signora dell'Ulivo , sanctuary a few kilometers outside the village. Was built around 1600 on an older construction.
• City gates Porta Soprana and Porta Sottana , still existing (and only) city gates of the medieval city wall.
• Chiesa di Sant'Antonio , parish church in the district of Bozzolo. Was built in the 18th century over a church from 1350.

traffic

The place has the junction Brugnato-Borghetto di Vara on the Autostrada A12 motorway and the municipality is crossed by Strada Provinciale 7 (SP7).

literature

• Touring Club Italiano : Liguria , Milan 2009, ISBN 978-8-83654803-3 , p. 692 f.

Web links

Commons : Brugnato  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the Montemarcello - Magra Natural Park
• Brugnato on the website of the most beautiful villages in Italy ( I borghi più belli d'Italia )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ↑ Website of the Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA), accessed on May 11, 2013 (Italian) (PDF; 330 kB)
3. ↑ Official website of ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) on 2001 population figures in the province of La Spezia, accessed on May 18, 2013 (Italian)
4. ↑ Terre di Lunigiana to the district Bozzolo , accessed on May 20, 2012 (Italian)
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Official website of the municipality of Brugnato on the history of the place ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 19, 2013 (Italian)  
6. ^ ^{A b} Touring Club Italiano: Liguria
7. ↑ ^{a b c d e} I borghi più belli d'Italia
8. ↑ Guide turistiche in provincia di La Spezia (Italian)
9. ↑ on the website of the Touring Club Italiano (bandierearancioni.it) , accessed on September 29, 2016 (Italian)
10. ↑ Official website of the municipality of Brugnato for the Chiesa dell'Accola ( Memento of the original of May 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 19, 2012 (Italian) 
11. ↑ Official website of the municipality of Brugnato for the Convento dei Padri Passionisti ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 19, 2012 (Italian) 
12. ↑ Website of the Diocesi La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato for the Museo Diocesano di Brugnato ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 20, 2012 (Italian) 
13. ↑ Official website of the municipality of Brugnato on the Oratorio di San Bernardo ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 20, 2012 (Italian) 
14. ↑ Official website of the municipality of Brugnato on the Ponte Romanico ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 18, 2012 (Italian) 
15. ↑ Official website of the municipality of Brugnato on the Santuario di Nostra Signora dell'Ulivo ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 20, 2012 (Italian) 
16. ↑ Terre di Lunigiana on the city fortifications of Brugnatos , accessed on May 20, 2012 (Italian)
17. ↑ Official website of the municipality of Brugnato for the district of Bozzolo ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 20, 2012 (Italian)