Ponna

Ponna
Country	Italy
region	Lombardy
province	Como  (CO)
Local name	Pona
Coordinates	45 ° 59 '  N , 9 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 59 '28 "  N , 9 ° 5' 19"  E
height	870  m slm
surface	5.96 km²
Residents	233 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	39 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	22020
prefix	031
ISTAT number	013187
Popular name	Ponnesi
Patron saint	James the Elder ( July 25 )
Website	Ponna

The municipality of Ponna in the province of Como

Ponna

Panorama over Ponna

Laino, Ponna Inferiore, Ponna di Mezzo and Superiore with Monte Galbiga in the background

Ponna is an Italian commune ( comune ) with 233 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Como in Lombardy .

The name Pona comes from the Greek Peona , which means peony , others derive it from Epona , an ancient deity of war. De Witt said instead that the etymology goes back to Ponna Lepontic , so it is of Etruscan origin.

geography

The municipality is located about 20 kilometers north of Como in the Val d'Intelvi and belongs to the Comunità montana del Lario Intelvese . It consists of three fractions: Ponna Superiore (870 m above sea level), Ponna di Mezzo (760 m above sea level) and Ponna Inferiore (600 m above sea level). The neighboring communities are Claino con Osteno , Alta Valle Intelvi , Laino , Colonno , Sala Comacina and Tremezzina .

history

Ponna was inhabited in Roman times, as a grave find shows. This was 100 meters from the Tower of the Ponna and contained a large terracotta vase and an idria made of the same material (now in the Archaeological Museum of Como). A Christian grave was found in the foundation of a house in the center of Ponna. The village was under the control of the city of Como (12th century) and later the Visconti (14th century), who gave it to the Rusconi as a fief with Val d'Intelvi (1416).

Ponna Superiore, di Mezzo and Inferiore were collected in a single parish in 1756. In 1815 a school and administration of the popular pastor Giovanni Battista Barelli was established in Ponna Inferiore. Perhaps this gave rise to the popular saying, which today has a pejorative meaning: “After studying at Ponna University”.

In 1917 the tourist awakening of Ponna began with the construction of the Laino –Ponna – Boffalora– Pigra road .

Attractions

• San Giacomo Church
• Church of San Gallo (17th century / 1773), architect: Ambrogio Di Valsolda
• Oratory of San Bartolomeo

Personalities

• Francesco Marmori (* around 1520 in Ponna; † after 1550 in Graz ), military engineer, employee of Domenico dell'Allio, continued his work on the country house in Graz.
• Antonio Soldati (* around 1650 in Ponna; † after 1694 in Broumov  ?), Plasterer, cousin of Tommaso. He began his career with the architect Carlo Lurago . Together with Tommaso, he stuccoed the church of St. Vitus in Broumov from 1687 to 1694, which had been built by Martino Allio.
• Tommaso Soldati (* 1665 in Ponna; † 1743 in Ludwigsburg ), brother-in-law of Diego Carlone and Donato Giuseppe Frisoni; worked in the Czech Republic first in Broumov Abbey and from 1697 in Prague : Jesuit Church on Karlsplatz; Tuscany Palace; Zbraslav Castle . From 1709 in Ludwigsburg Palace, plasterer, 1704–1707 he worked in the Lobkowitz Palace (Prague) in Prague and Lobkowitz Palace (Vienna) in Vienna and from 1709 in the Ludwigsburg Palace

• Barelli family of artists
  • Giovanni Battista Barelli (* around 1640 in Ponna Inferiore; † 1705 in Mainz ), master mason at Mainz Cathedral
  • Antonio Maria Barelli (* around 1660 in Ponna Inferiore; † after 1700 in Germany?), Plasterer
  • Antonio Bernardo Maria Barelli (born December 19, 1698 in Ponna Inferiore; †? Ibid?), Plasterer in Piedmont
  • Giuseppe Antonio Barelli (* around 1720 in Ponna Inferiore; † after 1760 in Bra (Piedmont)  ?), Altarpieces in the city of Bra, province of Cuneo, he made an altar in the parish church of Sant'Andrea designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

• Giovanni Domenico Piana (* 1708 in Ponna; † February 9, 1769 in Persano, fraction of the municipality of Serre ), military engineer. He was at the court of Charles III. (Spain) and Ferdinand I (Sicily) , built the Casina , a royal hunting lodge in the woods of Persano near Paestum , in 1752 .
• Don Umberto Marmori (* 1885 in Ponna; † January 18, 1945 in Cernobbio ), ordained a priest in May 1910, he was vicar in Lenno from 1910 to 1921. He was then from 1921 to 1933 pastor in front of Plesio . He became provost of Cernobbio. 1934 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 announced publicly on February 27, 1944. In May 1944 he was assigned to an exile in Bergamo . Seriously ill and with obvious signs of torture, he was returned to Cernobbio on the evening of January 16, 1945, where he died on January 18, 1945.

literature

• Anna Ferrari-Bravo, Paola Colombini: Guida d'Italia. Lombardia (esclusa Milano). Milano 1987, p. 306.
• Marco Lazzati: La Valle Intelvi, le origini, la storia, l'arte, il paesaggio, gli artisti comacini. Milan 1986.
• Annibale Marmori: Ponna, storia e vicende delle tre frazioni. Como 1949, pp. 34-36.
• Emilio Maroni, Matteo Motta: La Valle Intelvi. Contributi per la conoscenza di arte, archeologia, ambiente, architettura, storia e lettere intelvesi. Breve illustrazione di alcune chiese intelvesi (testi relativi ai cartelli segnaletici in realizzazione da parte dell'APPACUVI). Como 1997, p. 36.
• Andrea Spiriti, Maria Cristina Terzaghi, Giovanna Virgilio: Guide della Provincia di Como. Because Cernobbio alla Valle Intelvi. Como 1997, pp. 139-140.
• Valle Intelvi: La Valle Intelvi, Ponna - Chiesa di San Gallo e Via Crucis. Pellio Intelvi 2001/2002, p. 1.

Web links

Commons : Ponna  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Val d'Intelvi on artistiticinesi-ineuropa.ch
• Val d'Intelvi on valleintelvi.info
• Ponna (Italian) on lombardiabeniculturali.it/architetture/luoghi
• Ponna (Italian) on tuttitalia.it/lombardia
• Ponna (Italian) on comuni-italiani.it/013/187
• Ponna (Italian) on lombardia.indettaglio.it/ita/comuni

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ^ Church of San Giacomo (photo) on lombardiabeniculturali.it
3. ↑ Church of San Gallo (photo)
4. ↑ Oratorio San Bartolomeo (photo)
5. ↑ Ursula Stevens: Francesco Marmori. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. 2015, accessed March 28, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Ursula Stevens: Antonio Soldati. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. 2017, accessed August 27, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Tommaso Soldati on sueddeutscher-barock.ch (accessed on January 3, 2017).
8. ↑ Ursula Stevens: Tommaso Soldati. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. 2017. Retrieved July 19, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Ursula Stevens: Giovanni Battista Barelli Barelli. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. Retrieved February 25, 2016 . 
10. ↑ Ursula Stevens: Antonio Maria Barelli. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. Retrieved February 25, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Ursula Stevens: Antonio Bernardo Maria Barelli. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. Retrieved February 25, 2016 . 
12. ↑ Ursula Stevens: Giuseppe Antonio Barelli. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. Retrieved February 25, 2016 . 
13. ↑ Real Casa di Borbone delle Due Sicilie
14. ^ Il Postiglione. Rivista storica, vol. 20-21, 2008, pp. 187-202.