Stresa

Stresa
Country	Italy
region	Piedmont
province	Verbano-Cusio-Ossola  (VB)
Coordinates	45 ° 53 '  N , 8 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 53 '0 "  N , 8 ° 31' 50"  E
height	200  m slm
surface	33 km²
Residents	4,816 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density	146 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	28838
prefix	0323
ISTAT number	103064
Popular name	stresiani
Patron saint	Ambrose of Milan ( December 7th )
Website	Stresa
Stresa

Parish Church of Sant'Ambrogio

Grand Hotel des Iles Borromées

"Alpinia" botanical garden in Alpino

View of Stresa from Levo

View of the railway line and hotels

View of Stresa, Isola Bella and Isola dei Pescatori

Stresa is a municipality and a spa town in the Italian province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola and is located on the western shore of Lake Maggiore in the Piedmont region .

geography

Stresa is 200 m above sea level. M. and extends over an area of ​​33 km².

The Frazioni (suburbs or islands in the lake) of Stresa are Brisino, Isola Bella (see also Borromean Islands ), Isola dei Pescatori (see also Borromean Islands), La Sacca, Levo, Lido and Mottarone .

All Borromean Islands except Isolino di San Giovanni belong to the municipality of Stresa.

The neighboring municipalities are Baveno , Belgirate , Brovello-Carpugnino , Gignese , Gravellona Toce , Laveno-Mombello ( VA ), Leggiuno ( VA ), Lesa ( NO ), Omegna and Verbania .

In the vicinity of Stresa is the 1491  m high mountain Mottarone .

history

In Roman times , the consular road Severiana Augusta led from Stresa, which connected Mediolanum (today's Milan ) with Verbannus Lacus (Verbano Lake or Lago Maggiore ), and from here to the Simplon Pass (Latin Summo Plano).

The first historical source that mentions the existence of Stresa is a parchment from 998 in which the place is mentioned Strixia , a shape that is confirmed by a source from 1249; In 1220 it appears as Strexia .

From 11 to 14 April 1935 an agreement between the wars was to confirm in Stresa Locarno Treaties closed, it was Great Britain , France and Italy participated, called Stresa Front . The 52nd meeting of the Bilderberg Conference took place here from June 3 to 6, 2004 .

population

Population development
year	1861	1871	1881	1901	1921	1931	1951	1971	1991	2001	2011	2014	2018
Residents	3050	3152	3370	3496	4106	4139	4555	5122	4684	4836	4816	5006	4913

tourism

In the middle of the 19th century Stresa was connected to the shipping traffic on Lake Maggiore, whereas in Stendhal's time you had to embark in Sesto Calende or Arona to get to the Borromean Islands. The unification of Italy, which began in 1859, also gave tourism a boost. In 1859 the “Della Speranza” inn was built near the landing stage, and in 1863 the luxurious “Grand Hotel des Iles Borromées” followed. Today the place has numerous accommodations, shops, restaurants and cafes, from bed and breakfasts to luxury hotels.

In 1906, after the completion of the Simplon railway tunnel , the first trains connecting Paris with Milan stopped in Stresa , and in 1919 the Simplon Express became the Simplon Orient Express . Little by little, Stresa was linked directly to Paris and London on the one hand, and Venice , Belgrade , Bucharest , Athens and Constantinople on the other.

In the immediate vicinity of Stresa is the Villa Pallavicino, which was built in the 2nd half of the 19th century by the noble Pallavicino family in the classical style. It is located in a 16 hectare park with a small zoo.

The Mottarone mountain is used for winter sports. In summer it can be reached by car and offers a wide view; it can be reached from the northern outskirts with the “Funivia Stresa Mottarone” cable car. Halfway up, at the Alpino middle station of the mountain railway, is the "Giardino Botanico Alpinia", an alpine botanical garden established in 1934 with an area of ​​approx. 4 hectares.

The Borromean Islands and other places on Lake Maggiore can be reached from Stresa with various shipping lines.

Conferences in Stresa

Conference of Stresa April 11 to April 14, 1935: On April 14, 1935, the heads of government of France , Great Britain and Italy ( Stresa Front ) agreed measures to defend against the suspected German expansion and war policies, but without lasting success. Great Britain soon violated it, on June 18, 1935, it concluded the German-British fleet agreement .

The "Stresa Convention" of June 1, 1951 marks the first international agreement on the designation of origin in cheese names. Seven countries took part in this: Austria, Denmark, France, Italy, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.

In July 1958 another “Stresa Conference” was held here. To create a stable agricultural market , the member states of the European Economic Community ( EEC ) agreed to create individual product-related market organizations. The common agricultural policy grew out of this later . Beginning in the 1960s, 22 market organizations have emerged to this day, each of which regulates the market for individual agricultural products.

In 2004, Stresa was the location of the 52nd Bilderberg Conference , the anniversary meeting “50 Years of Bilderberger”.

traffic

In the village there is a station on the Domodossola – Milan railway line .

Personalities

• The brothers Francesco, Giacomo Filippo and Giuseppe Bolongaro , merchants and snuff manufacturers, came from Stresa and moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1735, where they founded the largest tobacco shop and snuff manufacturer in Europe. From 1772 to 1775 they had the baroque Bolongaropalast built in Höchst near Frankfurt , Germany's largest private building of the 18th century. Giacomo Filippo had the "Villa Bolongaro" built in Stresa in 1771 as a retirement home.
• The philosopher Antonio Rosmini-Serbati spent the last years of his life in Stresa, where he also died in 1855. He lived here in the "Villa Bolongaro" (the current "Villa Ducale") on the shores of Lake Maggiore, which was bequeathed to him in 1848 from Anna Maria Bolongaro and which now houses a Rosmini study center.
• Ernest Hemingway recovered from a war injury in the Grand Hotel des Iles Borromées in September 1918 and returned here in 1927 and 1948. In his novel A Farewell to Arms (Eng. In Another Country ) Stresa and the Grand Hotel play a role. In 2002 Stresa hosted the 10th International Hemingway Conference.

literature

• Various authors: Comuni della Provincia del Verbano-Cusio-Ossola. Consiglio Regionale del Piemonte, Chieri 2012, ISBN 9788896074503 .
• Various authors: Il Piemonte paese per paese. Bonechi Editore, Firenze 1996, ISBN 88-8029-156-4 .
• Various authors: Piemonte (non compresa Torino). Touring Club Italiano, Milano 1976, p. 657, Stresa online (Italian)

Web links

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

• Stresa (Italian) on tuttitalia.it
• Stresa (Italian) on comuni-italiani.it
• Stresa (Italian) on piemonte.indettaglio.it/ita/comuni
• Stresa on de.lagomaggiore.net, accessed November 26, 2015
• Stresa on the ETHorama platform

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ↑ Stendhal: Voyages en Italie. Paris 1973, p. 784.
3. ^ History. Homepage of today's hotel "Milan Speranza du Lac".
4. ↑ Lido di Carciano
5. ↑ https://www.stresaturismo.it/de/ausfluege/seilbahn-stresa-alpino-mottarone/
6. ↑ http://giardinobotanicoalpinia.altervista.org/chi-siamo/
7. ^ Homepage of the Rosmini Study Center
8. ^ The Letters of Ernest Hemingway . Volume 1, Cambridge 2011, pp. 144 f.
9. ↑ Grand Hotel des Iles Borromées. Historic Hotels of the World.