Valstrona

Valstrona
Country	Italy
region	Piedmont
province	Verbano-Cusio-Ossola  (VB)
Coordinates	45 ° 49 ′  N , 8 ° 15 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  N , 8 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  E
height	475  m slm
surface	48 km²
Residents	1,209 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	25 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	28897
prefix	0323
ISTAT number	103069
Popular name	valstronesi
Patron saint	Joseph of Nazareth ( March 19 )
Website	Valstrona

View of Luzzogno

Campello Monti

Sanctuary of the Madonna della Colletta in Luzzogno

Valstrona is a municipality in the Italian province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (VB), Piedmont region .

geography

The place is located 27 km from Verbania at an altitude of 475 m above sea level. M. The municipality covers an area of ​​48.94 km². The Valstrona includes the Strona, Luzzogno, Fornero, Piana di Fornero, Inuggio, Sambughetto, Rosarolo, Otra, Preia, Forno, Piana di Forno and Campello Monti fractions. The neighboring municipalities are Anzola d'Ossola , Calasca-Castiglione , Cravagliana , Loreglia , Massiola , Ornavasso , Pieve Vergonte , Quarna Sopra , Quarna Sotto , Rimella , Sabbia and Varallo Sesia .

The high valley towns of Forno or Campello Monti are alternative starting points for the 55-day long-distance hiking trail Grande Traversata delle Alpi (GTA), which officially begins in the Anzasca Valley .

history

The municipality of Valstrona was established in 1927 and initially united all the towns in the Strona valley (Fornero, Forno, Germagno, Loreglia, Luzzogno, Massiola and Sambughetto) with the exception of Campello Monti, which was added in 1929. In 1955 this large community was dissolved again; since then only the villages of Strona and Campello Monti belong to the municipality of Valstrona.

The origins of the two villages go back to the Middle Ages. The hamlet of Campello Monti , located at the back of the valley, was founded in the High Middle Ages as a Walser settlement; Today, however, the German dialect can only be grasped in a few field names. The Comunità di Cultura Walser Campello Monti - Verbania - Italia and the Walser Community Kampel (Gruppo Walser di Campello Monti) are dedicated to maintaining this memory and are in contact with other Walser associations in Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Austria.

population

Population development
year	1861	1871	1881	1901	1921	1931	1951	1971	1991	2001	2011	2018
Residents	1734	1755	1769	1753	1808	1634	1726	1676	1348	1270	1268	1234

Attractions

• Church of San Giovanni Battista in the Campello Monti district
• Sanctuary of the Madonna della Colletta in Luzzogno
• Church of San Giovanni Battista in the Campello Monti district
• Museo di Arte Sacra di Forno e Campello - a museum of sacred art

literature

• Various authors: Comuni della Provincia del Verbano-Cusio-Ossola. Consiglio Regionale del Piemonte, Chieri 2012, ISBN 978-88-96074-50-3 .
• Various authors: Il Piemonte paese per paese. Bonechi Editore, Firenze 1996, ISBN 88-8029-156-4 .

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality (Italian)
• Valstrona on tuttitalia.it (Italian)
• Valstrona on comuni-italiani.it (Italian)
• Valstrona on piemonte.indettaglio.it (Italian)
• Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia - Campello Monti / Kampel (German version)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ↑ GTA - Grande Traversata delle Alpi - Long-distance hiking in the western Alps Piedmont
3. ^ Paul Zinsli : Walser Volkstum in Switzerland, Vorarlberg, Liechtenstein and Piedmont. Heritage, existence, essence. Huber, Frauenfeld 1968; 7th, supplemented edition Chur 2002; ders .: Südwalser name book. The German place and field names of the Ennetbirgischen Walser settlements in Bosco-Gurin and in Piedmont. Stämpfli, Bern 1984.
4. ↑ Comunità di Cultura Walser Campello Monti - Verbania - Italia and Walser Community Kampel (Gruppo Walser di Campello Monti) .