Sangiano

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Sangiano
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Sangiano (Italy)
Sangiano
Country Italy
region Lombardy
province Varese  (VA)
Local name Sangiàn
Coordinates 45 ° 52 '  N , 8 ° 38'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 52 '0 "  N , 8 ° 38' 0"  E
height 228  m slm
surface 2.2 km²
Residents 1,490 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 677 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 21038
prefix 0332
ISTAT number 012141
Popular name sangianesi
Patron saint Andreas ( November 30th )
Website Sangiano
Sangiano municipality in the province of Varese
Sangiano, view from Monte Picuz
The Monte Sangiano, the so-called Picuz

Sangiano is a municipality ( comune ) in the province of Varese in the Lombardy region .

geography

The municipality is located about 20 kilometers west-northwest of Varese and about 2.5 kilometers east of the east bank of Lake Maggiore and covers an area of ​​2.2  km² . The neighboring municipalities are Caravate , Laveno-Mombello and Leggiuno .

history

Sangiano was mentioned for the first time in the statute of the roads and waters of the County of Milan of 1346 among the places. In 1491 the Duke of Milan Gian Galeazzo Sforza Sangiano and the nearby towns of Leggiuno, Bosco and Mombello enfeoffed his hunting prefect Francesco Cremona. The feud then passed to the Trivulzio family .

population

Population development
year 1751 1805 1853 1871 1881 1901 1921 1951 1971 1991 2001 2011 2018
Residents 208 255 * 411 526 651 826 955 1071 1123 1167 3712 1247 1513
  • 1809 merger with Leggiuno
  • 1827 Merger with Leggiuno

Attractions

  • Neo-Romanesque parish church of Sant'Andrea Apostolo (1903–1904), architect Antonio Casati, preserves a Mascioni organ from 1915
  • Oratory Madonna del Rosario, mentioned at the end of the 13th century, preserves frescoes (end of the 16th century)

Personalities

  • Giuseppe Besozzi (born June 6, 1837 in Milan ; † June 4, 1907 there), count, military and politician
  • Dario Fo (1926–2016), actor, Nobel Prize for Literature
  • Augusto Lozzia (born September 17, 1896 in Sangiano, † December 31, 1962 in Gardone Riviera ), painter
Dario Fo
Augusto Lozzia: self-portrait

literature

Web links

Commons : Sangiano  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Sangiano (Italian) on lombardiabeniculturali.it
  • Sangiano (Italian) on lombardia.indettaglio.it/ita/comuni/va
  • Sangiano (Italian) on comuni-italiani.it
  • Sangiano on de.lagomaggiore.net, accessed November 25, 2015

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.