Plesio

Plesio
Country	Italy
region	Lombardy
province	Como  (CO)
Local name	Pies or pies
Coordinates	46 ° 3 '  N , 9 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 2 '58 "  N , 9 ° 13' 32"  E
height	595  m slm
surface	16.98 km²
Residents	834 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	49 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	22010
prefix	0344
ISTAT number	013185
Popular name	Plesiensi
Patron saint	Fidelis of Como ( October 29 )
Website	Plesio

The municipality of Plesio in the province of Como

Plesio

Santa Maria Maddalena Church in Barna

Oratory of San Rocco

Plesio is a northern Italian municipality ( comune ) with 834 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Como in Lombardy .

geography

The municipality is located about 28 kilometers from Como in Val Menaggio on Lake Como and belongs to the Comunità Montana Valli del Lario e del Ceresio . It includes the following fractions: Barna , Breglia , Calveseglio , Ligomena , Logo . To the west of the village lies the Valle Menaggio, through which a connecting path leads via Porlezza to Lugano in Switzerland . The neighboring municipalities are: Cremia , Garzeno , Grandola ed Uniti , Menaggio , San Siro .

history

Plesio is one of the most important sites of the Bronze Age Golasecca culture .

economy

• Acque Minerali Val Menaggio SpA, factory of mineral water Chiarella , Monte Laura and acqua ( own brand of Aldi Suisse ).

Attractions

• Parish Church of San Fedele
• Church of Santa Maria Maddalena (1636) in the district of Barna
• Sanctuary of Madonna di Breglia
• Oratory of San Rocco
• Cup stone by Plesio

Events

• January 6th: Feast of Pasqueta .
• Sunday after January 20th: Sebastianfest in the Logo group .
• Last Sunday of May: Bernhard von Clairvaux Festival in the Ligomena fraction .
• Third Sunday of July: Feast of Maria Magdalena in the Barna fraction .
• Fourth Sunday of August: Madonna di Breglia festival.
• First Sunday of October: Rosary Festival .

Personalities

• Gasparo Mola (* 1571 in Breglia di Plesio; † January 26, 1640 in Rome ), son of Donato del Molo from Breglia , lived in Como and then at the papal court in Rome, worked for Pope Urban VIII : goldsmith, coin worker, chaser and head of the papal mint. He was called Cellini lombardo .
• Gian Pietro Lucini (* 1867 in Milan , † 1914 in Breglia), poet
• Giuseppe Carimati, Mayor, author of the Storia di Plesio ( Vannini Verlag, Brescia)
• Don Umberto Marmori (* 1885 in Ponna ; † January 18, 1945 in Cernobbio ), ordained a priest in May 1910, was vicar in Lenno from 1910 to 1921 . He then was pastor in front of Plesio from 1921 to 1933. He became provost of Cernobbio. In 1934 he helped many soldiers and Jews to escape abroad. He was arrested on January 24, 1944 by the Schutzstaffel (SS) and taken to San Vittore prison in Milan. His arrest was made public on February 27, 1944. In May 1944 he was assigned to an exile in Bergamo . He became seriously ill, and with obvious signs of torture, was brought back to Cernobbio on the evening of January 16, 1945, where he died on January 18, 1945.

literature

• Giuseppe Carimati: Storia di Plesio. Editore Vannini, Brescia 1949.
• Gino Brivio: Il masso avello di Plesio. In communitas. CSSVM, Menaggio 1977.
• Pietro Schenini: Cenni sulla storia di Plesio con riferimento alle etimologie dei vari paesi del comune. In: Communitas. CSSVM, Menaggio 1988; Idem: Plesio nella preistoria. In: Communitas , CSSVM, Menaggio 1993.
• Maria Gabriella Martini: Breglia, l'antica chiesa del san Gregorio. Sampietro editore, Menaggio 2002.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ↑ Chiarella and Montelaura mineral water
3. ↑ Parish Church of San Fedele (photo) on lombardiabeniculturali.it
4. ↑ Church of Santa Maria Maddalena (photo)
5. ↑ Sanctuary of the Madonna di Breglia (photo)