Sondalo

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Sondalo
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Sondalo (Italy)
Sondalo
Country Italy
region Lombardy
province Sondrio  (SO)
Coordinates 46 ° 20 ′  N , 10 ° 20 ′  E Coordinates: 46 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  N , 10 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  E
height 940  m slm
surface 96 km²
Residents 4,043 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density 42 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 23035
prefix 0342
ISTAT number 014060
Popular name Sondalini
Patron saint Agnes of Rome ( January 21 )
Website Sondalo
Sondalo municipality in the province of Sondrio
Sondalo
Sant'Agnese church
Church of Sant'Agnese: fresco of the crucifixion

Sondalo (dt. Outdated: Sundal) is a municipality with 4043 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the Italian province of Sondrio ( Lombardy ). The parish belongs to the mountain community Alta Valtellina.

geography

Sondalo is 47 km northeast of Sondrio , directly on the state road 38 between Sondrio and the Stilfser Joch . The neighboring municipalities are Grosio , Valdisotto and Valfurva .

Ventures

  • The large complex of the Regional Climatic Regional Hospital of Bormio and Sondalo and Hospital and Sanatorium Eugenio Morelli.
  • Sanatoriums of Villaggio Morelli and Pineta di Sortenna, the first Italian sanatorium founded by Ausonio Zubiani, built in Liberty (1903).

Attractions

  • Provost church of Santa Agnese with fresco of the crucifixion (XIII century).
  • Santa Marta Church with frescoes Storie di Santa Marta by Giovannino da Sondalo (15th century).
  • Old church of Sant'Agnese (11th century) with Romanesque frescoes.
  • Church Apparizione della Vergine alla Biorca in the district Mondadizza preserved the painting Madonna and Child with Saints Cipriano Valorsa.
  • Small church in the Serravalle district, it belonged to the monastery of Sant'Abbondio of Como , and in the apse has frescoes (1494) and traces of others from the Carolingian and Ottonian times.
  • Church of San Bartolomeo di Castelàz in the hamlet of Morignone, preserves frescoes Storie della Passione di Cristo by Giovannino da Sondalo (15th century) and others in the presbytery by Cipriano Valorsa.
  • Museo dei Sanatori di Sondalo (2015)

Sons and daughters

Sorted chronologically by year of birth.

Sondalo in the media

In 1973, director Vittorio De Sica shot the film "A Short Vacation" ( Una Breve Vacanza ) with Florinda Bolkan in the Sondalo area .

literature

  • Davide Del Curto, Francesco Toso: Technical Systems and Networks for a Modern High Altitude Settlement: The Construction of the Sanatorium Village in Sondalo [1932-1946]. In Robert Carvais, André Gulillerme, Valérie Nègre, Joël Sakarovitch (edited by): Nuts and Bolts of construction History. Picard 2012, Volume III, pp. 676-683, ISBN 978-2-7084-0929-3 .
  • Anna Ferrari-Bravo, Paola Colombini: Guida d'Italia. Lombardia (esclusa Milano). Milano 1987, p. 394.
  • Lombardia - Touring club italiano, Touring Editore (1999), ISBN 88-365-1325-5 , Sondalo Online
  • Sondalo on tuttitalia.it/lombardia

Web links

Commons : Sondalo  - 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.