Luino

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Luino
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Luino (Italy)
Luino
Country Italy
region Lombardy
province Varese  (VA)
Local name Lüin / Luvín
Coordinates 46 ° 0 ′  N , 8 ° 45 ′  E Coordinates: 46 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  E
height 202  m slm
surface 20.95 km²
Residents 14,575 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 696 inhabitants / km²
Factions Baggiolina, Biviglione, Bonga, Casa Colombaro, Casa Demenech, Casa Donato, Casa Ferrario, Casa Ferrattina, Casa Pozzi, Cascina Pastore, Case Mirabello, Colmegna , Creva, Fornasette, Girasole, Il Gaggio, Il Valdo, La Brughiera, La Speranza, Longhirolo, Molino, Monte Bedea, Motte, Pezza, Pezzalunga, Pezze, Pianazzo, Poppino, Roggiolo, Ronchi, San Pietro, Tecco, Torretta, Trebedora, Vignone, Voldomino
Post Code 21016
prefix 0332
ISTAT number 012092
Popular name luinesi
Patron saint Simon Peter and Paul of Tarsus ( June 29 )
Website Luino
Luino municipality in the province of Varese

Luino is a municipality in the province of Varese in the Lombardy region . The largest city on the east bank of Lake Maggiore is famous for its weekly market on Wednesdays.

geography

The city is located about 15 km south of the border with Switzerland and covers an area of ​​20.95  km² . Luino includes the Baggiolina, Biviglione, Bonga, Casa Colombaro, Casa Demenech, Casa Donato, Casa Ferrario, Casa Ferrattina, Casa Pozzi, Cascina Pastore, Case Mirabello, Colmegna , Creva, Fornasette, Girasole, Il Gaggio, Il Valdo, La Brughiera, La Speranza, Longhirolo, Molino, Monte Bedea, Motte, Pezza, Pezzalunga, Pezze, Pianazzo, Poppino, Roggiolo, Ronchi, San Pietro, Tecco, Torretta, Trebedora, Vignone and Voldomino . The steep bank of Lake Maggiore opens up here for the first time. The river Tresa , which flows from Lake Lugano (271 m above sea level) here into Lake Maggiore (193 m above sea level), has formed a broad delta and created an open plain. Lake Maggiore forms the border between the two Italian regions, Lombardy and Piedmont . The neighboring municipalities are Agra , Brissago-Valtravaglia , Cannero Riviera ( Verbano-Cusio-Ossola province ), Cannobio (VB), Cremenaga , Dumenza , Germignaga , Maccagno con Pino e Veddasca , Monteggio and Montegrino Valtravaglia .

history

A Roman settlement is proven with finds from the 3rd century AD.

In the Middle Ages , a small town developed which was the regional center for the hinterland and gained a certain importance through shipping. In turn, Luino was administered by influential families from Milan and Como . From 1512-1515 it was subject to the Confederates who had briefly conquered the area during their Milan campaigns. After the defeat in the Battle of Marignano , it came under the rule of France. In 1541, Charles V granted the city market rights and thus laid the foundation for the weekly market that is widely known to tourists.

In 1848 Giuseppe Garibaldi tried with a coup d'état to drive the Austrian occupiers out of Luino - in memory of this attempt, the Luinesi erected the first monument on Italian soil to their freedom hero in 1867. In 1861 the Austrian rule was replaced with the Risorgimento and Italy created its own national state.

The government of the newly founded nation state tried to pursue its own economic policy and pursued this goal with appropriate import regulations and customs regulations.

population

Population development
year 1751 1805 1809 1853 1861 1881 1901 1921 1931 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2004 2011 2016 2017 2018
Residents 1200 1446 * 2604 2258 2404 3023 5989 7265 9655 10693 11275 14118 15110 14883 14179 14234 14276 14664 14472 14454
Luino on Lake Maggiore
Luinos port

Textile industry in Luino

The textile industry, which is in Swiss hands, has created over 1,000 jobs since 1868. It supplied sales markets all over the world with its products. The favorable environment with a secure energy supply, recruiting opportunities for workers in the region and the connection to the public transport network contributed to the success of this development.

In order to create good conditions for the education of the children of the management employees from German-speaking Switzerland , the Swiss school Luino was founded in 1883

Luino station on the Luino – Oleggio railway line that went into operation in 1882

traffic

railroad

Luino and the Gotthard Railway

The original Gotthard Railway project envisaged a connection to the Italian route network near Novara and should run along the shores of Lake Maggiore. Due to the intervention of the Swiss Confederation, together with the metropolis of Milan, the Ceneri variant was subsequently given preference and the line opened in Milan in June 1882. The variant via Luino was also built and inaugurated just six months later in the same year. The imposing station building, built according to the plans of Giovanni Faini, and the generous track systems still remind us today that the international line Berlin - Genoa was once planned here. From 1885 to 1950 a narrow-gauge railway connected Luino with Lavena Ponte Tresa with a continuation from Ponte Tresa to Lugano .

Developments over time

In 1906 the Simplon line was put into operation and the Luino border station lost its importance. The closure of the rail link during the First World War ushered in the decline of the prosperous community. Although the village is located in Italy, Luino gained fame throughout Switzerland thanks to the railway connection from Giubiasco to the Gotthard Railway . From 1885 to 1950 (electrified in 1918) a narrow-gauge railway connected Luino with Ponte Tresa on Lake Lugano .

Highways

The closest connections to long-distance road transport are:

Culture and sights

Sacred buildings

  • Parish church of Santi Pietro e Paolo with 4 frescoes (evangelists) by the painter Raffaele Casnedi from Runo
  • Oratory of San Pietro built in the 12th century near the cemetery with frescoes (15th century) and Adorazione dei Magi fresco by the school of Bernardino Luini ; in the apse painting Madonna col Bambino, san Giovanni Battista e san Francesco d'Assisi (1647) from the church Madonna del Carmine
  • Church of San Giuseppe, architect Carlo Felice Soave (1749–1803) from Lugano , with organ (1683) restored by Vincenzo Mascioni from Cuvio
  • Sanctuary of Santa Maria del Carmine with frescoes (15th –16th centuries) and organ (1857) by Francesco Carnisi
  • Santa Maria Assunta Church
  • Parish Church of Our Lady of Lourdes in the Creva fraction
  • Santa Caterina church in the Colmegna fraction

Civil buildings

Museums

Other sights

  • Hiking trail variant 3V - Via Verde Varesina

photos

  • Altstadtgasse

  • Parish hall

  • Market in March 2009

  • Market in March 2009

  • Chiesa Santi Pietro e Paolo

  • House figure in the Piazza San Francesco

sports clubs

Town twinning

Luino maintains a partnership with the southern French city of Sanary-sur-Mer .

Piero Chiara and Paolo Nuzzi
Vittorio Sereni
Dario Fo
Sarah Maestri

sons and daughters of the town

  • Marcello Morini (* around 1620 in Luino; † after 1659 there?), Sculptor active in the provost church of San Martino by Sessa TI
  • Piero Chiara (born March 23, 1913 in Luino, † December 31, 1986 in Varese), Italian writer
  • Dario Fo (born March 24, 1926 in Sangiano ; † October 13, 2016 in Milan ), Italian writer and cabaret artist, Nobel Prize in Literature 1997
  • Vittorio Sereni (born July 27, 1913 in Luino, † February 10, 1983 in Milan ), literary critic, poet, writer
  • Sarah Maestri (born December 21, 1979 in Luino), actress.

literature

Web links

Commons : Luino  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Comune Luino
  • Luino (Italian) on lombardiabeniculturali.it/luoghi
  • Luino (Italian) on tuttitalia.it/lombardia
  • Luino (Italian) on comuni-italiani.it
  • Luino (Italian) on lombardia.indettaglio.it/ita/comuni/va
  • Luino on de.lagomaggiore.net, accessed November 25, 2015
  • Luino on the ETHorama platform

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ↑ Marcello Morini. In: Sikart , accessed January 22, 2016.
  3. ↑ Dario Fo è morto, aveva 90 anni. Milano dà l'addio al premio Nobel per la Letteratura . Il Giorno , accessed October 13, 2016 (Italian).