Torno (Lombardy)

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Torno
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Torno (Italy)
Torno
Country Italy
region Lombardy
province Como  (CO)
Coordinates 45 ° 51 '  N , 9 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 51 '20 "  N , 9 ° 7' 0"  E
height 225  m slm
surface 7 km²
Residents 1,150 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 164 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 22020
prefix 031
ISTAT number 013223
Patron saint St. Peter
Website Torno
Torno

Torno is a municipality on Lake Como with 1150 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Como in Lombardy .

The neighboring municipalities: Blevio , Carate Urio , Como , Faggeto Lario , Moltrasio and Tavernerio .

About 15 kilometers from Como, cloth merchants and silk weavers lived here for centuries. Today the residents work in nearby Como or the metropolis of Milan . Well-known names from Torno are Grasselli, Maggi, Sala, Ruspini and others who emigrated all over the world in the nineteenth century. A nearby Etruscan settlement and the Villa Pliniana are places worth seeing.

Attractions

  • Parish church of Santa Tecla with marble portal (1480)
  • Church of San Giovanni Battista del Chiodo (14th century) with frescoes and marble portal by the Rodari brothers from Maroggia
  • Sanctuary of Santa Elisabetta in the Montepiatto district
  • Villa Pliniana
  • Villa Plinianina
  • Villa Tanzi Taverna
  • Different stone tombs: Avello del Maas , Avello di Rasina , Avello delle Piazze , Avello Negrenza , Avello delle Cascine di Negrenza .
  • Erratic rubble stones Pietra pendula , Roccia di San Carlo Borromeo

Personalities

  • Gerolamo Caprera (* around 1610 in Torno; † around 1670 there), painter
  • Caspar David Friedrich (born September 5, 1774 in Greifswald ; † May 7, 1840 in Dresden ), a German painter, graphic artist and draftsman, active in Torno
  • Egidio Ruspini, captain, patriot, Garibaldin
  • Ardoino Erminio Ruspini, Garibaldin
  • Aldo Ruspini, Garibaldin
  • Leopoldo Ruspini, patriot
  • Cesare Poggi, MOVM, Major, Battalion Commander in the Brigata Potenza (272 ° fanteria), decorated in the Battle of Solstizio (17/18 giugno 1918)
  • Giuseppe Origoni, military on board the MAS 13 (flotilla led by Luigi Rizzo ), took part in the sinking of the battleship Vienna on the night of 9-10 December 1917 off Muggia near Trieste

photos

  • Panorama of Torno

  • Parish church of Santa Tecla and small port.

  • Sanctuary of Santa Elisabetta

  • Pietra Pendula

literature

  • Anna Ferrari-Bravo, Paola Colombini: Guida d'Italia. Lombardia (esclusa Milano). Milano 1987, p. 292.
  • Lombardia . Touring club italiano, Touring Editore (1999), ISBN 88-365-1325-5 , books.google.ch

Web links

Commons : Torno (Lombardy)  - 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. ↑ Villa Pliniana on ethorama.library.ethz.ch/de/node
  3. ↑ Torno . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 555 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).