Calliano (Trentino)

Calliano
Country	Italy
region	Trentino-South Tyrol
province	Trento  (TN)
Coordinates	45 ° 56 '  N , 11 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 56 '9 "  N , 11 ° 5' 41"  E
surface	17.44 km²
Residents	1,981 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	114 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	38060
prefix	0464
ISTAT number	022035
Patron saint	San Lorenzo
Website	www.comune.calliano.tn.it

Calliano ( German outdated Roßbach ) is an Italian municipality ( comune ) with 1981 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Trento in Vallagarina . As a strategically important point in the central Adige Valley, it was the scene of bloody battles.

history

On August 10, 1487, during the Venetian-Tyrolean War, the battle of Calliano took place, during which the Venetian condottiere Roberto da Sanseverino drowned in the Adige .

Further battles for Calliano took place in the course of the First Coalition War between September and November 1796.

During the First World War Calliano was an important transshipment point for the supply of the Austro-Hungarian front line on the plateau of Folgaria and Lavarone as well as on the Pasubio . From Calliano, supplies and ammunition were transferred from the Brenner Railway to several cable cars. In 1917, during a visit to the front , Emperor Karl I renamed the Tyrolean riflemen as Kaiserschützen.

During the Second World War , a railway bridge near Calliano was repeatedly targeted by Allied bomber attacks from November 1944 to April 1945. The place was badly affected.

Community partnerships

• Calliano , ( Piedmont )
• Callian , ( Var department )

Web links

Commons : Calliano  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• “Calliano” article on www.trentino.to

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ↑ Christoph Haidacher: The Battle of Calliano 1487. (PDF) In: tirol.gv.at. Tiroler Landesarchiv, accessed on July 2, 2020 .