Samolaco

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Samolaco
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Samolaco (Italy)
Samolaco
Country Italy
region Lombardy
province Sondrio  (SO)
Local name Samolek '
Coordinates 46 ° 15 '  N , 9 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 15 '5 "  N , 9 ° 23' 15"  E
height 236  m slm
surface 44.5 km²
Residents 2,904 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 65 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 23027
prefix 0343
ISTAT number 014057
Popular name Samolachesi
Patron saint Andrew (Apostle) ( November 30th )
Website Samolaco
Samolaco municipality in the province of Sondrio
River Mera

Samolaco is a northern Italian municipality ( comune ) with 2904 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Sondrio in Lombardy .

geography

The municipality is located about 38.5 kilometers west-northwest of Sondrio on the Mera and belongs to the Comunità Montana della Valchiavenna . Samolaco borders directly on the province of Como and includes the fractions Era , San Pietro , Somaggia , Ponte Nave , Bedogna , Bisee , Casenda , Giumellasco , Poiat , Paiedo , Vigazzolo and Schenone . The neighboring municipalities are Gordona , Livo (CO), Montemezzo (CO), Novate Mezzola , Prata Camportaccio , Sorico (CO) and Vercana (CO).

history

The origins

Samolaco was ancient in time from the northern end of Lake Como, at the time that expanded to present-day Mezzola (the Latin name Sum Sum Lacus) at the very head of the lake . The territory was already inhabited from the Neolithic (Neolithic), this is proven by the rock carvings found on the territory. However, the origin of the first inhabitants remains uncertain due to a lack of reliable sources.

The roman time

During the Roman rule, the Valchiavenna had a relative independence, although the Tabula Clesiana , a document certifying that the Valchiavenna was a municipality of Como, still existed in 16 BC. Was in force. The valley was divided into administrative units called vici-fundi , which included both land and men of a certain area before the Roman tax authorities. After the descent of the Roman emperor Augustus there was a period of calm and there was a progressive latinization of the speeches of the valley. The Christianity was installed perhaps as early as the first century AD in the areas of Samolaco..; According to the Catholic tradition, precisely in these areas the martyrdom of Fedele from Como, in whose memory the oratory of San Fedele stands today.

The barbarian invasions

The territory of Samolaco was, after 350, interested by the invasion of the Alamanni , who were defeated by Valentinian I in 368 . In 401 the Roman general Stilicho drove , then the barbarian king Alaric I from the Valchiavenna . Then the Ostrogoths , the Goths , the Byzantines and the Franks crossed the territory. From 728 the area of ​​Samolaco was influenced by the rule of the Longobards , it perhaps remains testimony in some dialectal terms.

After the thousand

Around the year 1000 the contract of enfiteusi was introduced, the buying and selling of land was also allowed. However, they survived the collective traits, the vicanalia , property of the Vici , and the conceliba , who instead belonged to the plebs. The conceliba was later called Comunia and the community arose out of the need to administer the common goods. Chiavenna became a free parish in 1097 with its own consuls, and a section of its vigilante guard was placed in Samolaco. Previously, the Parish Church of Samolaco was entrusted to the Bishop of Como , who built a castle that was destroyed by a landslide in 1060. Then a castle fortress was built again, which controlled the entrances from Lake Como.

Como was also affected by the clash between the Guelphs and Ghibellines . In 1282 the Rusconi, an important Guelf family, destroyed the bishop's palace. At that time subsistence farming, pastoralism, coal production and chestnut harvesting were practiced. 1301 Samolaco becomes an independent municipality with its own consul. The consul was elected alternately each year from among the heads of families in the various villages. This was followed by a period of stability under the rule of the Visconti , who were interested in the restoration of the old road that led from Lario via Samolaco to Chiavenna.

traffic

Strada Statale 36 del Lago di Como e dello Spluga leads through the municipality from Cinisello Balsamo to the Swiss border. The station is on the Valtellina Railway from Lecco to Chiavenna .

Attractions

  • Church of Sant'Andrea in Montenovo with frescoes 1632 by the painter Giovanni Battista Macholino

literature

  • Anna Ferrari-Bravo, Paola Colombini: Guida d'Italia. Lombardia (esclusa Milano). Milano 1987, p. 405.
  • Lombardia - Touring club italiano, Touring Editore (1999), ISBN 88-365-1325-5 , Samolaco Online
  • Samolaco on tuttitalia.it/lombardia

Web links

Commons : Samolaco  - 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. ↑ Amleto Del Giorgio: Samolaco yesterday and today. P. 39, the words Guald 'and g (h) udàz , which mean steep mountainside and godfather of baptism
  3. ^ Church of Sant'Andrea in Montenovo (Italian) in valchiavenna.com
  4. ↑ Giovanni Battista Macholino. In: Sikart , accessed January 19, 2016.