Rapallo

This article is about the Italian town. For the Swiss artist and cartoonist see Rapallo (artist)

Rapallo
Country	Italy
region	Liguria
Metropolitan city	Genoa  (GE)
Coordinates	44 ° 21 '  N , 9 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 21 '0 "  N , 9 ° 14' 0"  E
height	3  m slm
surface	33.70 km²
Residents	29,672 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	880 inhabitants / km²
Factions	S. Massimo, S. Maria del Campo, S. Pietro di Novella, S. Michele di Pagana, S. Maurizio di Monti, S. Martino di Noceto, S. Andrea di Foggia, S. Quirico d'Assereto, Montepegli
Post Code	16035
prefix	0185
ISTAT number	010046
Popular name	Rapallesi or Rapallini
Patron saint	NS di Montallegro
Website	Rapallo

View of the promenade and downtown Rapallo

Rapallo ( Ligurian Rapallo ) is an Italian city ​​in the Liguria region in the metropolitan city of Genoa with 29,672 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

The city is the largest seaside resort on the Riviera di Levante and is located about 33 kilometers southeast of Genoa .

history

Early history

An old grave discovered in 1911 in what is now the Sant'Anna district suggests that Rapallo was around 700 BC. Was first settled. The decoration of the tomb supports the assumption that Rapallo is an Etruscan foundation.

Rapallo massacre in the Middle Ages

On September 8, 1494, Charles VIII's army, led by Louis von Orléans , stormed the city ​​and slaughtered all the men, women and children. The massacre was in retaliation for Rapallo's attempt to stop Charles VIII's troops on their march to Naples with the help of 5000 Aragonese soldiers who had landed in the port of Genoa three days earlier. On May 2, 1495, a Genoese naval association under Francesco Spinola captured the French warships in the port of Rapallo and then liberated the city. The French commander, de Miolans, was taken prisoner.

In 1815, after the Congress of Vienna , Rapallo came to the Kingdom of Sardinia .

20th century

In the 20th century, two state treaties were signed in the seaside resort:

Italian-Yugoslav border treaty

• On November 12, 1920, Italy reached an agreement with the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ( renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1929 ) in the Rapallo Border Treaty on border issues.

German-Russian treaty

• The city achieved world historical fame through the Treaty of Rapallo , signed on April 16, 1922 between the German Reich and the Russian Soviet Republic . The foreign ministers of the two states, Rathenau and Tschitscherin , agreed to waive reparations payments and to resume diplomatic relations.

The treaty was viewed with strong suspicion by the Western powers. Great Britain demanded its cancellation, France took it as an opportunity to occupy the Ruhr area and tighten the collection of reparations payments.

Attractions

The port castle of Rapallo

• Old town, center point is the Piazza Cavour with the parish church, the bell tower is from 1857
• 16th century castle
• Museo del Pizzo a Tombolo, the lace museum in the city park

sons and daughters of the town

• Girolamo Bardi (1603–1667), philosopher and physician
• Luciano Bottaro (1931–2006), comic artist
• Sebastiano Nela (born 1961), football player
• Dino Betti van der Noot (* 1936), jazz pianist, arranger and band leader
• Alexandra Zazzi (* 1966), Swedish cook, journalist and author
• Simona Gioli (* 1977), volleyball player

Around Rapallo

• The pilgrimage church of Madonna di Montallegro is located north of Rapallo .
• In the southwest, Rapallo is bordered by the town of Santa Margherita Ligure , which was a prominent seaside resort at the beginning of the 20th century.

Web links

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

• Side of the city of Rapallo (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ↑ About the battle for Rapallo 1494/95
3. ↑ Italian Navy for the battle in the port of Rapallo