Valganna

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Valganna
coat of arms
Valganna (Italy)
Valganna
Country Italy
region Lombardy
province Varese  (VA)
Local name Valganna
Coordinates 45 ° 56 '  N , 8 ° 50'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 56 '0 "  N , 8 ° 50' 0"  E
height 380  m slm
surface 12 km²
Residents 1,591 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 133 inhabitants / km²
Factions Boarezzo, Ganna, Ghirla, Mondonico
Post Code 21039
prefix 0332
ISTAT number 012131
Popular name valgannesi
Patron saint Christophorus ( July 25th ), Sankt Gemolo ( February 4th )
Website [www.comune.valganna.va.it Valganna]
Valganna municipality in the province of Varese

Valganna is a municipality in the province of Varese in the Lombardy region .

geography

The municipality covers an area of ​​12  km² . Valganna includes the Boarezzo, Ganna, Ghirla and Mondonico factions. The neighboring municipalities of Valganna are Arcisate , Bedero Valcuvia , Brinzio , Cuasso al Monte , Cugliate-Fabiasco , Cunardo , Induno Olona , Marchirolo and Marzio . The Lago di Ghirla belongs to the municipality .

history

The first settlements in the area date back to Roman times . In the Middle Ages, Ganna was a feud of the Abbey of San Gemolo. In 1556, The Holy See ordered the abolition of the abbey, whose ownership and rights were transferred to the Ospedale Maggiore in Milan , on which the Valganna depended for the centuries that followed.

population

Population development
year 1751 1805 1853 1871 1881 1901 1921 1951 1971 1991 2001 2011 2017 2018
Residents 498 716 1216 1075 1075 1081 1078 1278 1382 1483 1462 1584 1598 1623

Attractions

Ganna lake
  • The Abbey of San Gemolo in the district of Ganna is a former Benedictine monastery that existed from 1095 to 1556. The church was first mentioned in the 12th century. It has frescoes (13th - 14th centuries); the bell tower is Romanesque (1150–1175), the pentagonal monastery was built in the middle of the 14th century. There is a small museum here with paintings and plaster work by Odoardo Tabacchi and Giuseppe Grandi. The church preserves a neoclassical organ. The last restoration took place in 1985.
  • The oratory of San Gemolo was first mentioned in the 13th century and is decorated with frescoes from the school of Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli, known as Morazzone.
  • The Church of Santa Croce was built in 1689 and preserves frescoes by the painter Antonio Busca.
  • The pre-alpine lakes: Lago di Ganna is largely natural, whereas Lago di Ghirla is open to tourists.
  • Ganna Cave.
  • In the Ghirla fraction, in the 18th century, a ram was built that was used over the centuries for iron processing. The building was gradually abandoned at the end of the 19th century and was then restored at the beginning of the 21st century.
  • Boarezzo artist village .

  • San Gemolo Abbey

  • Francesco de 'Tatti, Sant'Imerio

  • Ice falls

Personalities

  • Sant'Imerio di Bosto and San Gemolo (* around 970 AD), pilgrims and martyrs in Valganna
  • Giovanni Battista de 'Grandi (* around 1638 in Ganna; † 1718 there), painter, architect?
  • Girolamo de 'Grandi (* around 1638 in Ganna; † 1718 there), painter
  • Giuseppe Grandi (born October 17, 1843 in Ganna; November 30, 1894 ibid), sculptor, pupil of Vincenzo Vela
  • Odoardo Tabacchi (born December 19, 1831 in Ganna, † March 23, 1905 in Milan), sculptor

literature

  • Anna Ferrari-Bravo, Paola Colombini: Guida d'Italia. Lombardia (esclusa Milano). Milano 1987, p. 212.
  • Lombardia. Touring club italiano, Touring Editore, 1999, ISBN 88-365-1325-5 (Italian, books.google.ch ).

Web links

Commons : Valganna  - album with pictures, 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. ↑ Imerio di Bosto, Sant ' on santiebeati.it (Italian).
  3. ↑ a b Grandi, Giovanni Battista de 'and Girolamo . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 508 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Grandi, Giuseppe . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 509 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).