Cressogno

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Cressogno
Country Italy
region Lombardy
province Como  (CO)
local community Valsolda
Coordinates 46 ° 1 '  N , 9 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 1 '28 "  N , 9 ° 4' 30"  E
height 282  m slm
Residents 550 (2001)
Demonym cressognesi
patron Nicholas of Myra ( December 6th )
Church day 6th of December
Telephone code 0344 CAP 22010
Website Official website
Cressogno embankment
San Nicolao Church from 1683
Grave of Carlo Ambrogio Affaitati

Cressogno is located on Lake Lugano on Italian soil, five minutes from the Swiss border.

geography

Cressogno belongs to the municipality of Valsolda . There are many holiday homes and tourism is the main business. Cressogno can be reached from Lugano by car via a main road or by boat.

The tunnel between the Swiss border and Porlezza (7 km of Statale Regina 340) ends in Cressogno . After more than 25 years of construction, the tunnel was opened in spring 2013.

history

While the Spanish government (16th - 17th centuries), like everyone else in the valley, had limited powers such as the practical needs of ordinary life, most of the public functions were treated collectively by the General Council of Valsolda.

The Pieve ( parish ) had already been suppressed by the arrival of French revolutionary troops in 1797 , the valley soon found its administrative unity through the amalgamation of all parishes into one unit through the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy (1805-1814) (1805).

The return to the Kingdom of Lombardy-Veneto meant the dissolution of all unions and opened Cressogno for more than a century of separate administration. In 1853 the village had 113 inhabitants but only 79 in (1871). In 1921 there were only 135 residents. The Fascismo was decided in 1928 to suppress the restoration of the municipality of Valsolda .

Attractions

  • Church of San Nicola di Mira
  • Sanctuary of the Madonna della Caravina
  • Oratory San Carlo
  • Villa Prina

Personalities

  • Giovanni Antonio Paracca called il Valsoldino (* around 1561 in Cressogno, † 1646 in Rome ), sculptor

literature

  • Romano Amerio: Introduzione alla Valsolda. Fondazione Ticino Nostro, Lugano 1970.
  • Andrea Spiriti, Giorgio Mollisi: I Pozzi di Valsolda e gli Avogadro di Tradate. Una collaborazione tra Ticino e Lombardia (con una prima catalogazione delle opere). In Arte & Storia, Volume 8, Number 43, April – June 2009, Edizioni Ticino Management SA, Lugano 2009, pp. 87–90.
  • Paola Di Giammaria: L'attività di Giovanni Antonio Paracca, detto il Valsoldo, nella chiesa di Santa Susanna alle Terme, ed alcuni documenti inediti sul Valsoldo e sul Valsoldino . In: Scultura a Roma nella seconda metà del Cinquecento: protagonisti e problemi , eds. W. Cupperi, G. Extermann, G. Ioele, San Casciano Val di Pesa 2012.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cressogno
  2. ^ Church of San Nicola di Mira on lombardiabeniculturali.it
  3. ^ Church of San Nicola
  4. ↑ Sanctuary of the Madonna della Caravina
  5. ↑ Santuario Beata Vergine della Caravina ( Memento of the original from August 1, 2015 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.caravina.org
  6. ↑ Sanctuary of the Madonna della Caravina
  7. ^ Oratorio San Carlo
  8. ↑ Villa Prina
  9. ↑ Giovanni Antonio di Pietro Paracca (Italian) in treccani.it/enciclopedia (accessed on: March 28, 2016.)
  10. ↑ Paola Di Giammaria: L'attività di Giovanni Antonio Paracca, detto il Valsoldo ... , San Casciano Val di Pesa 2012, pp. 225-261.