Menaggio

Menaggio
Country	Italy
region	Lombardy
province	Como  (CO)
Local name	Menas
Coordinates	46 ° 1 '  N , 9 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 1 '0 "  N , 9 ° 14' 0"  E
height	202  m slm
surface	13 km²
Residents	3,124 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	240 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	22017
prefix	0344
ISTAT number	013145
Popular name	menaggini
Patron saint	Stephen ( December 26th )
Website	Menaggio

The municipality of Menaggio in the province of Como

Menaggio (1890-1900)

Menaggio is an Italian municipality with 3124 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in Lombardy in the province of Como .

geography

Menaggio is located on the west bank of Lake Como at the mouth of the Sanagra . To the west of the village is the Valle Menaggio , through which a connecting path leads via Porlezza to Lugano in Switzerland . The municipality includes the following fractions: Castello , Croce , Fossato , Loveno , Nobiallo , Sonenga .

The neighboring communities are: Grandola ed Uniti , Griante , Perledo ( LC ), Plesio , San Siro , Tremezzina and Varenna ( LC ).

Menaggio is one of the most touristy places on the lake. There are many hotels along the long lake promenade. The heart of Menaggio is Piazza Garibaldi , which lies between the lake and the Church of Santo Stefano .

In the district of Loveno above the center is the German-Italian Center Villa Vigoni , which is operated jointly by the German federal government and the Italian government.

A ferry connects Menaggio with Varenna and Bellagio on the opposite banks, between 1884 and 1939 the Menaggio-Porlezza railway ran between Porlezza on Lake Lugano and the town.

Infrastructures

• Villa Vigoni Centro Italo-Tedesco per l'Eccellenza Europea

Attractions

• Provost church of Santo Stefano
• Santa Marta Church
• Church of Santi Loreno e Agnese in the district of Loveno , with painting Madonna Addolorata
• Church of Santi Bartolomeo e Nicola in the Nobiallo district
• Sanctuary of the Madonna della Pace
• San Giusto Church in the Croce district
• San Carlo Church in the Castello district
• Villa Erba
• Villa Penza
• Villa Scanavino in the district of Loveno

Personalities

• Leone Leoni (* around 1509 in Menaggio; † July 22, 1590 in Milan ) was an Italian sculptor , goldsmith and medalist of the Renaissance .
• Gabriele Malagrida (1689–1761), Jesuit missionary in Brazil , convicted and shot in Lisbon after the Jesuit order was abolished in Portugal .
• Giacomo Rezia (1745-1825), anatomy professor at the University of Pavia , where he founded the Museo anatomico .
• Heinrich Mylius (1769–1854), bought a villa in Loveno in 1829 , now Villa Vigoni, the seat of the German-Italian Center for European Excellence .
• Enrico Caronti (born October 28, 1901 in Blevio; † December 23, 1944 in Menaggio), called Romolo , partisan, communist, political commissioner of the 52 ^ma Brigata Garibaldi "Luigi Clerici". Shot.

Town twinning

• France: Allevard
• Brazil: Carapicuíba
• Germany: Wolpertswende

photos

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  Menaggio with Monte Grona and Monte Bregagno (right)

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  Piazza Garibaldi

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  View of Menaggio from Monte Crocetta

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  Palm Express bus in Menaggio

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  The harbor

literature

• Anna Ferrari-Bravo, Paola Colombini: Guida d'Italia. Lombardia (esclusa Milano). Milano 1987, p. 299.
• Lombardia - Touring club italiano, Touring Editore (1999), ISBN 88-365-1325-5 , Menaggio Online
• Federico Cereghini, Damiano Cereghini: Nobiallo di Menaggio e il suo Santuario. Menaggio 2002

Web links

Commons : Menaggio  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the Comune di Menaggio
• Menaggio 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. ↑ Villa Vigoni Centro Italo-Tedesco per l'Eccellenza Europea on villavigoni.eu
3. ^ Provost church Santo Stefano (photo) on lombardiabeniculturali.it
4. ↑ Santa Marta Church
5. ↑ Church of Santi Loreno e Agnese in the Loveno district (photo)
6. ↑ Church of Santi Bartolomeo e Nicola (photo)
7. ↑ Sanctuary of the Madonna della Pace (photo)
8. ↑ Church of San Giusto (photo)
9. ↑ Church of San Carlo (photo)
10. ↑ Villa Erba (photo)
11. ↑ Villa Penza (photo)
12. ↑ Villa Scanavino (photo)
13. ↑ Leoni, Leone in: Leonard Forrer: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists , Volume III, London 1907, p. 398 ff., English.