Caprezzo

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Caprezzo
Template: Infobox municipality in Italy / maintenance / coat of arms missingNo coat of arms available.
Caprezzo (Italy)
Caprezzo
Country Italy
region Piedmont
province Verbano-Cusio-Ossola  (VB)
Coordinates 45 ° 59 ′  N , 8 ° 34 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 0 ″  E
height 530  m slm
surface 7 km²
Residents 172 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 25 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 28815
prefix 0323
ISTAT number 103018
Popular name Caprezzesi
Patron saint Bartholomew (Apostle) ( August 24 )
Website Caprezzo
Caprezzo: stone roofs, parish church of San Bartolomeo, the little church of Madonnina in the background
Pian Cavallone

Caprezzo is a municipality in the Italian province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (VB) in the Piedmont region .

geography

The municipality covers an area of ​​7.26  km² . The Ponte Nivia fraction belongs to Caprezzo. The neighboring municipalities are Cambiasca , Intragna , Miazzina and Vignone .

history

Caprezzo was part of the "Comunità della Vallintrasca", which was first drawn on a map in 946. The first written mention of the place comes from the year 1125/1128, when a certain Pietro Spallador from Capricio was obliged to make certain payments. The place is subsequently referred to as Capricium , Cavretium or Capretium , and Caprezzo belonged successively to the County of Angera , the Counts of Castello in Pallanza , the city of Novara and the Duchy of Milan . From 1466 to 1797 Caprezzo was a fiefdom of the Borromeans .

A small church in Caprezzo is mentioned as early as 1486. On November 18, 1617, Caprezzo was established as an independent parish. In the course of history, however, many residents emigrated to Lombardy , and from 1860 to Switzerland and France .

The economic basis was the cultivation of wine and hemp, sheep and cattle farming as well as the sale of chestnuts, nuts and firewood, whereby the products were also shipped to Milan and Switzerland via Lake Maggiore .

In 1944 Caprezzo was on the edge of the partisan state Repubblica dell'Ossola .

population

Population development
year 1861 1871 1881 1901 1921 1931 1951 1971 1991 2001 2011 2017 2018
Residents 442 414 505 422 373 377 270 210 165 177 168 164 163

Culture and sights

Several steep mountain streams flow through Caprezzo, the water of which fed several preserved systems:

  • the mill wheel of the Latteria Sociale , a municipal dairy company founded in 1876, where butter was produced.
  • two large covered, communal wash basins that Pietro Verazzi had built in 1885

From the parish church of San Bartolomeo , built between 1610 and 1617 , a flat way of the cross , which formerly served as the promenade of the village, leads to the small "Madonnina" called St. Mary's Church, which was built after the plague of 1630.

Quite a few houses still have stone roofs, which are mostly replaced by cheaper tile roofs during general renovations.

The Pro Loco cultural association takes care of regular local events.

Personalities

literature

  • Antonio Varalli: Cenni storici sul paese di Caprezzo. Milano 1920, new edition 1986 by Pro Loco , 51 pages (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 : Caprezzo  - collection of images, 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. ↑ a b Storia-Economia. History of Caprezzo (Italian). In: caprezzo.vb.it, accessed on October 3, 2019.