Galbiate

Galbiate
Country	Italy
region	Lombardy
province	Lecco  (LC)
Local name	Galbiaa
Coordinates	45 ° 49 '  N , 9 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 48 '50 "  N , 9 ° 23' 0"  E
height	371  m slm
surface	16.14 km²
Residents	8,499 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	527 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	23851
prefix	0341
ISTAT number	097036
Popular name	Galbiatesi
Patron saint	John (Apostle) ( December 27th )
Website	Galbiate

The municipality of Galbiate within the province of Lecco

Villa Bertarelli

Barro-Galbiate train station

Galbiate is a municipality in the province of Lecco in the Italian region of Lombardy with 8499 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

geography

Galbiate is about 6 km south of the provincial capital Lecco and 40 km northeast of the metropolis of Milan , at the foot of Monte Barro (922 m, panoramic mountain on 5 lakes: Lago di Lecco, part of Lake Como , in the north, Lago d'Annone and Lago di Pusiano in the west, Lago di Garlate and Lago di Olginate in the east).

The municipality includes the districts of Bartesate , Ponte Azzone Visconti , Sala al Barro and Villa Vergano . The neighboring municipalities are Cortenova , Lierna , Mandello del Lario , Parlasco , Pasturo , Perledo , Primaluna , Taceno and Varenna .

population

Population development
year	1861	1871	1881	1901	1911	1921	1931	1951	1961	1971	1981	1991	2001	2011	2019
Residents	3468	3496	3698	4171	4657	4519	4609	5125	5513	6375	7040	8261	8644	8587	8513

Culture and sights

• San Giovanni Evangelista, parish church
• Church of San Michele : In the district of San Michele, 3.4 km north of the center of Galbiates on the eastern slope of Monte Barro , there is the unfinished church of the same name based on a project by the important Milanese baroque architect Attilio Arrigoni (1640–1704) who designed Palazzo Sormani in Milan Andriani and the Rotonda della Besana . The impressive shell remained without equipment and without a roof because the community had run out of money.
• Santa Maria Bambina Church
• Sant'Alessandro Church
• Santa Maria al Barro church
• San Rocco Church $
• Church of Santi Genesio e Macario
• Santa Maria Assunta Church
• Oratory of San Giuseppe
• Museo etnografo dell'Alta Brianza, a small museum of rural culture, in the district of Camporeso.
• Villa Bertarelli.
• Palazzo Brioschi
• Monte Barro : the regional park "Parco naturale del Monte Barro" was declared a nature park of European importance because of its extraordinary location (in the last ice age, an island mountain in the glacier stream that came from Bernina and Ortler and almost reached Monza). The peculiarities of the flora (more than 1000 species on almost 7 km², including rare pre-glacial species) and the fauna are explained in a small museum, which is located in the former Eremo halfway up the mountain. A few minutes up there is an educational plant trail. The building was originally part of a high medieval fortification system and was rebuilt in the Renaissance (San Vittore Chapel). The components, which were once used as a hostel, were used as an air healing facility in the first half of the 20th century and are now the center of the nature park in a grove of 200-300-year-old beeches. On the ascent to Monte Barro some remains of fortification towers from the Eastern Gothic period.

Sons and daughters

• Renato Corti (1936–2020), Roman Catholic clergyman, cardinal and bishop of Novara

literature

• Anna Ferrari-Bravo, Paola Colombini: Guida d'Italia. Lombardia (esclusa Milano). Milano 1987, p. 331.
• Lombardia - Touring club italiano, Touring Editore (1999), ISBN 88-365-1325-5 , Galbiate Online

Web links

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

• Galbiate on lombardiabeniculturali.it/architetture/
• Galbiate on tuttitalia.it/lombardia/
• Galbiate on comuni-italiani.it/
• Galbiate on lombardia.indettaglio.it (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.