Esino Lario

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Esino Lario
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Esino Lario (Italy)
Esino Lario
Country Italy
region Lombardy
province Lecco  (LC)
Coordinates 46 ° 0 ′  N , 9 ° 20 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 59 ′ 40 ″  N , 9 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  E
height 913  m slm
surface 18 km²
Residents 757 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 42 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 23825
prefix 0341
ISTAT number 097035
Popular name Esinesi
Patron saint Victor of Milan ( April 7th )
Website Esino Lario
The village with its two historic centers above and below

Esino Lario ( 'ezino ; Isen in the Esiner dialect, Esin / ˈeːziŋ / in the Lecchese dialect ) is a municipality in the province of Lecco in the Italian region of Lombardy with 757 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019). Esino Lario is located in the Esino Valley ( Val d'Esino ). The municipality is part of the Comunità montana della Valsassina, Valvarrone, Val d'Esino e Riviera and lies entirely in the Parco Regionale della Grigna Settentrionale .

geography

Esino Lario in the mountains of the Grigna
The municipality of Esino Lario within the province of Lecco

The municipality is located about 15 kilometers northwest of the provincial capital Lecco and 60 kilometers north of the metropolis of Milan . It includes the Esino Superiore, Esino Inferiore, Ortanella, Bigallo and Cainallo fractions . The neighboring municipalities are Cortenova , Lierna , Mandello del Lario , Parlasco , Pasturo , Perledo , Primaluna , Taceno and Varenna .

View from Bellevue over Esino Lario and Lake Como.

A winding road leads from Varenna on Lake Como via Perledo to Esino Lario, which climbs 700 meters over a distance of around eleven kilometers. The municipality covers an area of ​​the foothills in the northwest of the Grigna ( 2410  m slm ), a heavily forested mountain area of ​​18.66 square kilometers, which is part of the regional natural park Parco della Grigna Settentrionale . In the north the Pizzo di Parlasco ( 1511  m slm ) rises above the village, in the southwest near the hamlet of Ortanella the Monte Parolo ( 1203  m slm ) between the village and the lake. In the south-east is the Monte Pilastro ( 1811  m slm ) between Esino Lario and the summit of the Grigna. The Grigna is the highest point of the municipality, the center of the village is at around 910  m slm , the lowest point of the territory at 554  m slm

The Grigna region is strongly shaped by karst . There are numerous caves, sinkholes and other karst forms such as the Moncodeno basin , the Porta di Prada rock gate . With numerous paths and huts, the area is well developed for hikers.

history

Old postcard with a central place

In Roman times there was a Roman fortress on the hill where the main church stands today. On the slope above the village are the remains of a fortified tower from the 12th century.

"Hanno belli monti, belli piani, bone fonti, et altre assai particolarità, con sì vago territorio, di sì aeroso sito et ritrovandosi so alto sopra quei monti, copioso de tutto quello fa bisogno al vivere humano."

- Paride Cattaneo della Torre , Cronaca dei Torriani e Descritione della Valsassina , 1571

"They have beautiful mountains, beautiful areas, good water sources and many other special features, with a vague area, in an airy place, so high up in these mountains, rich in everything that is needed for human life."

- Paride Cattaneo della Torre: Chronicle of the Torriani and description of Valsassina , 1571

For a long time only two mule tracks - now restored hiking trails - connected the village with the outside world: the older led from Esino Superiore to Perledo , a younger one was built in the first half of the 19th century and connected Esino Inferiore on the southern side of the Esino valley with Varenna at the Lakeshore. Small chapels along the paths mark the municipal boundaries. The current road was laid out between 1915 and 1925.

Esino Lario was created in 1927 from the merger of the districts Esino Superiore and Esino Inferiore .
Lario is a locally used term for Lake Como.

Population development

Istituto nazionale di statistica

Site and sights

Pope Pius XI on the climb to the Grigne Mountains , bronze statue on the Way of the Cross

The village has two historical centers in Esino Superiore and Esino Inferiore , both of which also have a church. In the steep, narrow and winding streets there are numerous wells that were built towards the end of the 18th century to bring water into the village.

The parish church of San Vittore is located on a hilltop , expanded in the 19th century and redesigned in the baroque style. The baptistery  dates from the 16th century. A Way of the Cross  leads past the Chapel of San Nicolao from the village to the church.

At the beginning of the 20th century and in the interwar period, numerous villas were built around the historic town centers . The builders were wealthy private individuals who established luxury tourism in Esino Lario. The numerous buildings are mostly architecturally richly decorated. The Villa Clotilde now houses a cultural center, parts of the Pietro Penza museum and archive, and the tourist information office, while the new building of the Grigna Museum was opened in the villa park in 2016 .

Civil structures

  • Villa Clotilde
    • Museo delle Grigne: Museum of Local History
    • Ecomuseum delle Grigne: Exhibition on the interaction between humans and the environment by Esino Lario, since 2008
    • Tourist Information
    • Library: Volunteer Initiative, since 2008
    • Pietro Pensa archive: Pietro Pensa's estate with 182 documents from the 14th to the 20th century on regional history
  • Centro Orientamento Educativo (COE) Montanina
  • Rosa delle Alpi restaurant

  • Villa Clotilde

  • Montanina

  • Rosa delle Alpi

  • primary school

  • kindergarten

  • town hall

Religious buildings

  • Parish Church of San Vittore
  • Church of Sant'Antonio in Esino Superiore
  • Subsidiary Church of Saint John the Baptist in Esino Inferiore
  • Oratory of San Pietro in the Ortanella district
  • Oratory of San Nicolao, Bishop of the Brotherhood of the Blessed Sacrament. Shrine in memory of those who fell in the two world wars
  • Cainallo Church
  • Chapel of Our Lady of Pianche
  • Chapel of the Crucifix
  • Chapel of San Grato
  • Chapel of Our Lady of the Snow
  • Way of the Cross by Michele Vedani
  • Gisöl di Fat chapel

  • Prayer Chapel of San Pietro in the Bigallo district

  • San Vittore Church

  • Sant'Antonio church

  • Oratory of San Pietro in the Ortanella district

  • Church of San Giovanni

  • Way of the Cross by Michele Vedani

Other historical buildings

  • Torre di Esino, 12th century

  • Old defense tower of Esino

caves

  • Moncodeno Glacier Grotto
  • Cainallo grotto
  • Canova grotto
  • Esino boulder (also masso delle streghe , Hexenfels )

Culture

The feast of the local patron San Vittore takes place on April 7th. The parish of San Vittore was founded in 1455 and is part of the Diocese of Milan.

Wikimania 2016

Group picture with residents of Esino Lario and participants of Wikimania 2016

The twelfth Wikimania took place in Esino Lario from June 23 to 26, 2016 . For the first time, the Wikipedians have gathered far away from big cities, which is why the motto of the event was Wikimania Goes Outdoors . There were more conference attendees than residents in the village during the event. A large part of the Esinesi were involved in the organization of Wikimania as volunteers or renters of accommodation. 1,200 people from 70 countries took part in Wikimania 2016 and 168 helpers were on duty.

In preparation for the conference, the location had received, among other things, a fiber optic Internet connection and a public WiFi network had been set up in several locations . The road was renewed with the support of more than € 500,000 from the regional and provincial governments. The cinema, which had been empty for many years, was converted into a multifunctional hall.

Personalities

  • José Nasazzi (1901–1968), Uruguayan soccer player at the 1930 World Cup , whose father came from Esino Lario
  • Pietro Pensa (1906–1996), engineer and businessman, former mayor of Esino Lario (1956–1975), local historian
  • Enrico Mino (1915–1977), Army General, Commander of the Carabinieri , born and buried in Esino Lario

literature

  • Anna Ferrari-Bravo, Paola Colombini: Guida d'Italia. Lombardia (esclusa Milano). Milano 1987, p. 338.
  • Documenti dell ' Archivio Pietro Pensa CC-BY-SA documentazione su Esino Lario e il Bacino dell'Adda
  • Pietro Pensa: Folclore e storia di un paese della nostra montagna: le origini in “Rivista di Lecco”, anno XVI (1957), n. 6, pp. 7-10; the same: Storia di un paese della nostra montagna in “Rivista di Lecco”, anno XVII (1958), n. 1–2, pp. 33–35; the same: Storia del territorio di Esino Lario in Il Museo delle Grigne di Esino Lario , 1956. Testi redatti per i pannelli del Museo delle Grigne con trascrizione a cura di Patrizia Barindelli, Esino Lario, 2009.
  • Gianclaudio Ferraroli: L'Origine della Val d'Esino , Editore Cattaneo Paolo Grafiche Lecco, 2002.
  • Don Battista Rocca: Il Castello d'Esino Lario , stampa anastatica, 1932. Ristampato e allegato a Gianclaudio Ferraroli, L'Origine della Val d'Esino , Editore Cattaneo Paolo Grafiche Lecco, 2002.
  • La parrocchia di Esino nel Venticinquennio 1927-1952 (dalle note d'archivio), Tipografia Orfanotrofio, Lecco, 1952.
  • Antonio Stoppani : Paléontologie Lombarde ou description des fossiles de Lombardie publie a l'aide de plusieurs savants par l'abbé Antonio Stoppani. I series: Les pétrifications d'Esino or description of the fossil appartenant au dépôt triaque supérieur des environs d'Esino en Lombardie. Divises en quatre monographies comprenant les gastéropodes, les acéphales, les brachiopodes, les céphalopodes, les crionides, les zoophytes et les amorphozoaires, avec une carte géologique et les figurer d'espèces lithographiées d'après le nature , Milano, Imprimeries de Joseph Bernardoni, 1858-60.

Web links

Commons : Esino Lario  - album with pictures, 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. ↑ DOP
  3. ↑ a b Esino Lario: Clima e Dati Geografici - Comuni-Italiani.it ( Memento from March 13, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ↑ a b c d e Amministrazione Communale di Esino Lario, Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne (ed.): Esino Lario 2016 . Esino Lario 2015.
  5. ↑ Valsassina Expo: Carsismo ( Memento from July 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ I Geositi dell'Insurbia: Moncodeno ( Memento from March 15, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ↑ Torre di Esino. In: Lombardia Beni Culturali :. Retrieved July 2, 2016 (Italian).
  8. ^ L'antica strade Esino Superiore Perledo e il Gesuolo del Crocifisso. In: Quaderni di storia esinese. Retrieved July 5, 2016 (Italian).
  9. ^ Regio Decreto n ° 1648 del 12 agosto 1927. In: Gazzetta Ufficiale del Regno d'Italia N. 221 del 24 Settembre 1927. Retrieved on July 2, 2016 (Italian).
  10. ↑ Guides Italy: Lombardy , 9th. Edition, Italian Touring Club, 1987, p. 338.
  11. ↑ Itinerario geologico in Val Brembana: VAL PARINA, CESPEDOSIO, SCALVINO E DINTORNI . Retrieved July 2, 2016.
  12. ↑ Parrocchia di San Vittore. In: Lombardia Beni Culturali. Retrieved July 2, 2016 (Italian).
  13. ↑ a b Wikimania, "So Esino Lario è rinato". In: Tgcom24. July 1, 2016, accessed July 1, 2016 (Italian).
  14. ^ Pietro Pensa Bibliography on worldcat.org/identities
  15. ^ Maria Magni: 200 years of the Carabinieri and the General Mino. In: leccoprovincia.it. Retrieved January 31, 2015 (Italian).
  16. ↑ Gen. CA Enrico Mino. In: Ministero della Difesa: Arma dei Carabinieri. Retrieved July 1, 2016 (Italian).