Morbegno

Morbegno
Country	Italy
region	Lombardy
province	Sondrio  (SO)
Coordinates	46 ° 8 '  N , 9 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 8 '0 "  N , 9 ° 34' 0"  E
height	262  m slm
surface	15 km²
Residents	12,443 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	830 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	23017
prefix	0342
ISTAT number	014045
Popular name	Morbegnesi
Patron saint	San Pietro and Paolo ( June 29 )
Website	Morbegno

Morbegno municipality in the province of Sondrio

Morbegno ( German  Morbend ) is a municipality in the Italian province of Sondrio in Lombardy with 12,443 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019). In March 2019 it was named Alpine City of the Year 2019.

geography

The municipality is located in the lower Valtellina , about 15 kilometers east of Lake Como at an altitude of 262  m slm. The neighboring municipalities are Albaredo per San Marco , Bema , Civo , Cosio Valtellino , Dazio , Talamona and Traona .

Attractions

• Collegiate Church of San Giovanni Battista Parish church since 1560, it houses a reliquary of the Holy Thorn (the Crown of Christ) and the remains of the Blessed Andrea Grego da Peschiera . It is the most important baroque building in Valtellina and one of the most interesting in Lombardy . It contains important works such as: The Madonna and Child and San Filippo Neri by the Venetian painter Giovan Battista Pittoni, 36 oval paintings, some of which by the Ticino painter Giuseppe Antonio Petrini from Carona , the death of St. Joseph by the Milanese Andrea Lanzani and many Works by the artists Pietro and Cesare Ligari. Among the sculptures are the statues of the facade by Stefano Salterio and the beautiful praying angels that are on the sides of the main altar by Elia Vincenzo Buzzi, as well as a statue of the Madonna by Giovanni Angelo Del Maino .
• San Pietro Church was built between 1337 and 1341 and was the parish seat until 1560 when it was rebuilt for the Protestant rite. When the parish returned to Catholic worship after 1620, it was rebuilt so that it could be consecrated for Catholic worship. Noteworthy are the baroque frescoes of the vault by Pietro Bianchi, called il Bustino, and the paintings by Giacomo Parravicini, called il Gianolo .
• Church of San Martino contains interesting paintings, including the altarpiece by Giacomo Parravicini, which stands on the main altar and represents the titular saint; on the right, a delicate Madonna and Child frescoed in the early 16th century is venerated.
• Pilgrimage church Maria Assunta is a happy combination of Renaissance (outside) and Baroque art (inside). The exterior - its current appearance is due to the interventions made around 1503 by Giovanni Antonio Amadeo and his students using the Lombard Renaissance style - is presented in all its sober elegance. Inside contains the magnificent wooden Ancona from the years 1516–1519, the work of the carvers Giovan Angelo and Tiburzio Del Maino and the painters Gaudenzio Ferrari and Fermo Stella , in the predella there are depictions directly from some engravings by Albrecht Dürer , a painting The Birth of the Virgin Maria by Gaudenzio Ferrari and a 17th century painting copy by Luca Giordano .
• Malacrida Palace, with fresco The Abduction of Ganimede by the painter Giovan Pietro Romegialli (1761), Salon with fresco The Triumph of Truth through the Arts and Sciences on Ignorance Subject of the Enlightenment interpreted by Cesare Ligari with exquisite Venetian taste; Quadratures by Giuseppe Coduri called il Vignoli, also in Ligari's work the fresco of the Three Graces in the adjacent salon cello is worth mentioning.
• Ganda Bridge, designed by the architect Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, was destroyed by the Adda River in 1772 , then rebuilt on October 2, 1778 by the engineer Francesco Ferrari.
• Provost church della Visitazione in the Campovico fraction.
• Church of Madonna delle Grazie in the Paniga fraction.
• Santa Maria Maddalena church in the Desco fraction.
• Church of San Giovanni Battista in the Arzo fraction.
• San Matteo Church in the Fraction of Valle.

Personalities

• Antonio da Morbegno (* around 1480 in Morbegno; † after 1515 in Mantua ), sculptor
• Andrea Grego da Peschiera (1400–1485), Beat, called "l'Apostolo della Valtellina"
• Feliciano Ninguarda (* around 1524 in Morbegno, † January 5, 1595 in Como ), bishop; as nuncio for southern Germany he worked mainly in Bavaria , Tyrol , Salzburg and Styria
• Giovanni Francesco Cotta (born November 26, 1727 in Morbegno; † May 4, 1894 ibid), painter
• Giovan Pietro Romegialli (born January 24, 1738 in Morbegno; January 4, 1799 in Sondrio), painter
• Giuseppe Romegialli (* 1779 in Morbegno; January 29, 1861 in Sondrio), lawyer, local historian
• Omero Franceschi (1873–1955), politician and lecturer
• Guglielmo Felice Damiani (1875–1904), poet
• Edoardo Danieli ( Loveno , 1884–1963), Chaplain of the Apinin Battalion Val d'Intelvi, Archpriest of Morbegno
• Enea Mattei (1887–1955), industrial entrepreneur and benefactor
• Pasquale Saraceno (1903-1991), economist
• Ezio Vanoni (1903–1956), Senator and Minister of the Republic
• Sergio Paronetto (1911-1945), author
• Gisella Passarelli (1913-2010), journalist, writer and poet
• Orazio Rancati (* 1940), football player and coach
• Sergio Lanza (1945–2012), Catholic theologian
• Flavio Del Barba (* 1948), football player
• Roberto Antonelli (* 1953), football player
• Saverio Xeres (* 1955), priest and local historian
• Sabrina Paravicini (* 1970), actress and writer
• Francesco Gavazzi (* 1984), racing cyclist
• Elena Curtoni (* 1991), skier

Picture gallery

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  Collegiate Church of San Giovanni Battista

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  Pilgrimage Church of Maria Assunta

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  Pilgrimage Church of Maria Assunta, fresco

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  Malacrida Palace

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  Ganda bridge

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  Small place

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  Pedretti Theater

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  Ezio Vanoni Municipal Library

literature

• Martin Bundi: Morbegno. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 7, 2009 .
• Marco Albetario: Spunti per la lettura dell'ancona. In: Tota enitet auro . L'ancona dell'Assunta nel santuario di Morbegno, Morbegno 2007, pp. 65-85; same: Una scheda su Giovanni Angelo Del Maino. (Tra il 1500 e il 1515). In: Rassegna di Studi e di Notes , XXXI, 2007–2008, pp. 13–36.
• Marco Albetario, Giulio Perotti: Ritrovata un'opera di Giovanni Angelo Del Maino. La Madonna del "Compianto" di Morbegno. In: Le Vie del Bene , 10, 2007, pp. 9-15; the same: Giovanni Angelo Del Maino. 1517–1518: La Madonna del Compianto di Morbegno. In: Rassegna di Studi e Notes , XXXIII, 2010, pp. 127–179.
• Lorenz Joos: Morbegno. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 5, Monopole - Neuenkirch. Attinger, Neuchâtel 1921, p. 662; Digitized version (PDF).
• Giulio Perotti: Morbegno. Cooperativa Turistica PAN, Morbegno 1992.

Web links

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

• Link catalog on Morbegno at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
• Morbegno Municipality website (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ^ Antonio da Morbegno . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 2 : Antonio da Monza-Bassan . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1908, p. 2 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
3. ^ Pierre Surchat: Feliciano Ninguarda. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 9, 2010 , accessed February 18, 2020 .
4. ↑ Cotta, Giovanni Francesco . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 7 : Cioffi – Cousyns . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 559 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
5. ↑ Giovanni Francesco Cotta (Italian) from treccani.it/enciclopedia, accessed on December 27, 2016.
6. ^ Giovanni Francesco Cotta. In: Sikart Retrieved on: August 18, 2015
7. ↑ Giovan Pietro Romegialli works accessed on 27 December 2016th
8. ↑ Giuseppe Romegialli (Italian) on provincia.so.it/ente/storia/dizionario%20biografico; accessed on December 27, 2016.