Torno (Lombardy)
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Country | Italy | |
region | Lombardy | |
province | Como (CO) | |
Coordinates | 45 ° 51 ' N , 9 ° 7' 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 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
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
- Renzo Dionigi: Villa Pliniana on www.flickr.com
- Montepiatto
- Torno (Lombardy) on the ETHorama platform
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
- ↑ Villa Pliniana on ethorama.library.ethz.ch/de/node
- ↑ 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 ).