Val San Giacomo

Val San Giacomo - Valle Spluga
	Val San Giacomo / Valchiavenna
location	Sondrio Province , Lombardy , Italy
Waters	Liro , Lake Montespluga, Lake Isola, Lake Prestone
Mountains	Lepontine Alps , Rhaetian Alps
Geographical location	46 ° 23 ' N , 9 ° 21' E Coordinates: 46 ° 23 ' N , 9 ° 21' E
height	333 to 3279 m slm
length	25 km

Map of the Three Leagues with County Cleven of Fortunat Speaker

The Val San Giacomo (also Valle Spluga or in the local Alpine Lombard dialect val di Giüst , German St. Jakobstal ) is an Alpine valley and part of the province of Sondrio and the Lombardy region in Italy .

geography

It stretches for around 25 kilometers from the Splügen Pass 2114 m slm to Chiavenna 333 m slm The Valchiavenna from Chiavenna to Lago di Mezzola north of Lake Como is its continuation. The neighboring valleys are the Misox in the west and the Val di Lei in the east .

The valley consists of the three municipalities of San Giacomo Filippo , Campodolcino and Madesimo .

It was formed by a glacier and is traversed by the Liro River, which flows into the Mera after Chiavenna . The Liro flows through three reservoirs built in the 1950s , the Lago di Montespluga 1900 m slm , the Lago d'Isola 1260 m slm and the Lago di Prestone 1900 m slm

Topographically, the valley separates the western and eastern Alps with the Lepontine Alps and the Tambogruppe in the west from the Rhaetian Alps with the Platagruppe in the east.

The following mountains surround the valley:

Pizzo Tambo 3,279 m
Pizzo d'Emet 3,209 m
Pizzo Stella 3,163 m
Pizzo dei Piani 3,158 m
Pizzo Ferrè 3,103 m
Pizzo Suretta 3,027 m

history

The valley forms the southern ramp of the Splügen Pass , which was already known in Roman times and can now be walked as a historical cultural and long-distance hiking trail Via Spluga through the Cardinello Gorge . As a port, it was responsible for the movement of goods on the south ramp.

From 1512 to 1797, the valley belonged to the Three Leagues as part of the Cleven County . It became part of the Cisalpine Republic in 1797 and shared the fate of Lombardy.

The pass road was expanded in 1822 by the Austrians ruling in Milan and was an important north-south connection until the Gotthard and San Bernardino tunnels were built .