Rossana

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Rossana
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Rossana (Italy)
Rossana
Country Italy
region Piedmont
province Cuneo  (CN)
Coordinates 44 ° 32 '  N , 7 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 32 '0 "  N , 7 ° 26' 0"  E
height 535  m slm
surface 19 km²
Residents 831 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 44 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 12020
prefix 0175
ISTAT number 004197
Popular name Rossanesi
Patron saint Assunta
Website Rossana

Rossana ( Piedmontese Rossan-a ) is an Italian commune with 831 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Cuneo (CN), Piedmont region .

The districts (Frazioni) Lemma and Madonna delle Grazie belong to the municipality .

geography

The place is located 24 km from the provincial capital Cuneo at the beginning of the Valle Varaita , on the right bank of the Torto river . The municipality covers an area of ​​19 km². The neighboring municipalities are Busca , Costigliole Saluzzo , Piasco , Valmala and Venasca .

Surname

The name Rossana is often traced back to the adjective roscianus or rossianus , which presumably comes from a Roman gens corresponding name from the time of the Roman conquest in the 2nd century BC. Goes back. Furnished as a Fondus or Ager Roscianus , the feminine form was carried over to the place through the Villa or Cohors Rosciana .

history

In the area of ​​Bracalla, at casale Barbero, a three-line Roman inscription was found, which is now walled in a wall of the Palazzo Garro, the former seat of the municipal administration. Carlo Fedele Savio assumed in 1937 that the "Bagienni", the Vegenni , a Ligurian tribe that is attributed to the Taurine people, ruled Provence and Piedmont . From this he derived the overarching common language and culture of the regions.

Rossana became an estate of the Diocese of Turin in 998 and remained so until the French Revolution . The valley locations enjoyed a relatively high degree of autonomy. In 1155 the feudal possession went to Guglielmo del Vasto, the German Count of Busca, whose descendants retained the rule until the early 14th century. They were formally subordinate to the Counts of Saluzzo , whose western outpost was the valley.

The real masters of the place became the family of the gas cone Archibald (Arcibaldo) di Abzac. His family died out in Rossana around 1317, and the bishops of Turino replaced this dynasty with other families, namely the Mazucco da Melle, the Cervere, the Ricciardino da Savigliano, the Romagnano, the Bernezzo, the Gazelli de Selve.

With the occupation by Savoy, the Margraves of Saluzzo finally lost their supremacy in the 14th and 15th centuries. The last signor of Rossana was Luigi Gazelli, in 1772 by King Carlo Emanuele III. raised to the conte. Paola Ruffo di Calabria , a descendant, became Queen of Belgium in 1993.

In the First World War, 20 inhabitants of the village died, 36 were in the Second World War . On July 12, 1944, the German occupiers burned down 69 houses.

Population development

ISTAT

literature

  • Patrizia Capobianco, Almerino De Angelis: I quadri votivi del comune di Rossana , Associazione Soulestrelh, 1993.
  • Dante Barbero: I piloni e le pitture murali di Rossana , Associazione Soulestrelh, 1993.
  • Carlo Fedele Savio: Rossana, ossia il passato di un villaggio prealpino , Mortara, Saluzzo 1937.

Web links

Commons : Rossana  - 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. ^ Carlo Fedele Savio: Rossana ossia il passato di un villaggio prealpino , Saluzzo 1937.