Meina
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| Country | Italy | |
| region | Piedmont | |
| province | Novara (NO) | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 47 ' N , 8 ° 32' E | |
| height | 214 m slm | |
| surface | 7 km² | |
| Residents | 2,441 (Dec 31, 2019) | |
| Population density | 349 inhabitants / km² | |
| Post Code | 28046 | |
| prefix | 0322 | |
| ISTAT number | 003095 | |
| Popular name | Meinesi | |
| Patron saint | Margaret of Antioch ( April 7th ) | |
| Website | Meina | |
Meina ( Piedmontese and Lombard Mèina ) is a municipality with 2,441 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) on the Italian west bank of Lake Maggiore , which belongs to the province of Novara in the Piedmont region.
The next larger towns are Lesa in the north and Arona in the south .
The present area of the city was already inhabited during the Bronze Age. The place is known for its magnificent villas from the 18th and 19th centuries. The palatial buildings, whose architectural styles range from Classicism to Art Nouveau , can best be viewed from the lake. Spacious parks surround the stately mansions. It is worth mentioning the Villa Faraggiana Ferrandi, which was built in 1885 in neoclassical style and houses the Botanical Museum.
In mid-September 1943 soldiers of the German Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler committed a mass murder in Meina of 16 Jews who had found refuge in the Meina Hotel from other European countries. This Meina massacre is probably the best-known single event of the first mass murders of Jews in Italy . A memorial stone in the Parco della Fratellanza at the entrance to the village (on the right side coming from Arona) commemorates this crime.
Sons and daughters of the church
- Giovanni Moretti (1923–2018), Catholic Archbishop and Diplomat of the Holy See
Web links
- Meina on gedenkorte-europa.eu, the homepage of Gedenkorte Europa 1939–1945
- Meina on de.lagomaggiore.net, accessed November 25, 2015
- Laying of stumbling blocks from January and August 2015 to commemorate those who were murdered in the Meina massacre.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.