Gignese

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Gignese
Template: Infobox municipality in Italy / maintenance / coat of arms missingNo coat of arms available.
Gignese (Italy)
Gignese
Country Italy
region Piedmont
province Verbano-Cusio-Ossola  (VB)
Coordinates 45 ° 52 '  N , 8 ° 31'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 52 '0 "  N , 8 ° 31' 0"  E
height 707  m slm
surface 14 km²
Residents 1,044 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 75 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 28836
prefix 0323
ISTAT number 103034
Popular name gignesini
Patron saint Mauritius (Saint) ( January 15 )
Website Gignese
Gignese
Gignese and surroundings
Mottarone

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

geography

The place is at an altitude of 707 m above sea level. M. The municipality covers an area of ​​14  km² . The municipality consists of the districts Alpino, Nocco and Vezzo. Gignese is located between Lake Orta and Lake Maggiore , near Monte Mottarone. On the Mottarone at an altitude of 1491  m slm you have a good view.

The neighboring municipalities are Armeno , Brovello-Carpugnino , Omegna and Stresa .

history

The village of Gignese (originally Zinexium) was first mentioned in 1269 in a document in which Braga de Zinexio paid a fee to the monastery of Arona . The municipality, subject to the Archdiocese of Milan , passed to the Visconti family of Milan in the 14th century , who passed Gignese on to the Borromeo family in 1441 until the fiefs were abolished in 1797.

population

Population development
year 1861 1871 1881 1901 1921 1931 1951 1971 1991 2001 2011 2017 2018
Residents 1016 959 956 783 871 927 873 951 850 789 943 1009 1008

economy

In the village is the Museo dell'Ombrello, an umbrella museum with pieces from many countries and different centuries.

Sports

The 9-hole Alpine Golf Club of Stresa is located on a green natural terrace between Gignese and Vezzo . Started in 1924, the first Italian Open took place in September 1925 with 3 participants, won by Francesco Pasquali, followed by 1926 and 1927 by two more editions with 16 and then 30 participants. Immediately after the war there were several demonstrations that took place on the fairways in the village of Alpino; At the national level, the square tournament Italy-Great Britain-South Africa-USA was played in August 1945, which the Italian won against South Africa. In September 1946, the National Championship doubles were mixed. In July 1948 the High Italy Team Championship took place.

Attractions

  • Parish Church of San Maurizio was rebuilt in the first half of the 18th century. It preserves a deposition by the painter Fermo Stella da Caravaggio from 1562.
  • Museo dell'Ombrello e del Parasole (Umbrella and Parasol Museum) was founded by Igino Ambrosini in Gignese in 1939. In 1976 a new museum was built. On two floors, on the ground floor, there is a collection of around three hundred finds (cataloged out of more than 1,500), the result of a craftsmanship practiced by seasonal emigrants since the early 19th century. On the second floor there is a room dedicated to the exhibition of photographic material and reminiscent of the working methods of this particular type of traveling craftsman , the Lusciat . In common with many other housekeepers, the technical jargon was the lusciàt , called tarùsc . The Umbrella and Parasol Museum is visited by 8-10,000 visitors annually.
  • The village of Alpino is a residential complex on the slopes of the Mottarone , at an average altitude of approx. 800 m above sea level. M. This place extends over the territory of the municipalities of Gignese and Stresa and is characterized by a wonderful view of the Borromean Gulf. The most important painters of the Milan area stayed in the Alpino: ( Ernesto Bazzaro , Leonardo Bazzaro , Eugenio Gignous , Filippo Carcano, U. Dell'Orto, G. Boggiani, Pompeo Mariani), among the musicians: Ildebrando Pizzetti , Arturo Toscanini , Guido Cantelli, Giovanni Anfossi with his student Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli . The then technical commissioner of the Italian national soccer team, Vittorio Pozzo , had part of the preparation for the 1934 World Cup at this location with the aim of detoxifying his players from the efforts of the championship.
  • The Alpinia Botanical Garden is located at the most panoramic point of Mottino .

literature

  • 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 .
  • Various authors: Piemonte (non compresa Torino). Touring Club Italiano, Milano 1976, p. 660, Gignese online (Italian)

Web links

Commons : Gignese  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Gignese (Italian) on tuttitalia.it
  • Gignese (Italian) on comuni-italiani.it
  • Gignese (Italian) on piemonte.indettaglio.it/ita/comuni
  • Gignese on verbanensia.org
  • Tra Arte e Fede on verbanensia.org
  • Gignese on de.lagomaggiore.net, accessed November 26, 2015

Individual evidence

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