Dizzasco

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Dizzasco
Template: Infobox municipality in Italy / maintenance / coat of arms missingNo coat of arms available.
Dizzasco (Italy)
Dizzasco
Country Italy
region Lombardy
province Como  (CO)
Local name Dizàsch
Coordinates 45 ° 57 '  N , 9 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 56 '36 "  N , 9 ° 6' 0"  E
height 506  m slm
surface 3.61 km²
Residents 607 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 168 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 22020
prefix 031
ISTAT number 013087
Popular name Dizzaschesi
Patron saint Simon Petrus ( June 29 ), Sisinnio ( May 29 )
Website Dizzasco
The municipality of Dizzasco in the province of Como

Dizzasco is a northern Italian municipality ( comune ) with 607 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in Lombardy .

geography

The municipality is located about 14.5 kilometers north of Como near the western shore of Lake Como in the Val d'Intelvi . Dizzasco is located at the beginning of the Val d'Intelvi in ​​the western branch of Lake Como, is on a wooded terrace of glacial origin. In the valley below, enveloped in a deep valley, flows the Telo (river), which flows into Argegno at Lake Como (Lario) .

Dizzasco consists of several districts: Biazzeno , Rovascio , Muronico and Cavrano . The neighboring municipalities are Centro Valle Intelvi , Schignano , Argegno , Colonno , Pigra and Blessagno .

history

In the Middle Ages, Dizzasco shared the fate of the entire Val d'Intelvi. It was an ally of Como in the decades-long war (1118–1127) against Milan. In the Renaissance it was a fiefdom of the Visconti , Rusconi (1541) and Marliani (1583).

In the early 19th century, during the reign of the Austro-Hungarian Empire , Andrea Brenta, a leader of the Risorgimento , supported by Giuseppe Mazzini , organized a group of villagers with the aim of driving the Austrians away. Giuseppe Mazzini, who was in Lugano in 1848 , often traveled into the valley to prepare for the uprising. This ended with the arrest and execution of Andrea Brenta and Andretti in Como.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill found inspiration for his paintings in the quiet of the valley, as evidenced by his depiction of the Church of San Sisinio.

Attractions

  • Church of Santi Pietro and Paolo (mid 19th century)
  • Church of San Sisinio in the Muronico fraction
  • Oratory of San Giobbe (1651)
  • Oratory San Carlo.

Personalities

  • Giovanni Battista Nono (* around 1590 in Dizzasco; † after 1633 in Eggenberg Palace near Graz  ?), Architect

literature

  • Marco Lazzati: La Valle Intelvi, le origini, la storia, l'arte, il paesaggio, gli artisti comacini. Milan 1986.
  • Emilio Maroni: La Valle Intelvi. Contributi per la conoscenza di arte, archeologia, ambiente, architettura, storia e lettere comacine. La Chiesa di San Siro e il Santuario della Beata Vergine di Loreto a Lanzo. Como 1999, pp. 67-68, 70.
  • Daniela Pauli-Falconi: Intelvi, Val d '. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2008 .
  • Andrea Spiriti, Maria Cristina Terzaghi, Giovanna Virgilio: Guide della Provincia di Como. Because Cernobbio alla Valle Intelvi. Como 1997.

Web links

Commons : Dizzasco  - 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. ^ Church of Santi Pietro and Paolo (FOto) on lombardiabeniculturali.it
  3. ↑ Church of San Sisinio (photo)
  4. ^ Parish of San Sisinnio
  5. ↑ San Giobbe Oratory (photo)
  6. ↑ Giovanni Battista Nono at uibk.ac.at/aia/ (accessed on November 16, 2016).