Vergiate

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Vergiate
Template: Infobox municipality in Italy / maintenance / coat of arms missingNo coat of arms available.
Vergiate (Italy)
Vergiate
Country Italy
region Lombardy
province Varese  (VA)
Local name Vergiàa
Coordinates 45 ° 43 '  N , 8 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 43 '0 "  N , 8 ° 42' 0"  E
height 270  m slm
surface 21.61 km²
Residents 8,718 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density 403 inhabitants / km²
Factions Cimbro, Corgeno, Cuirone, Sesona
Post Code 21029
prefix 0331
ISTAT number 012138
Popular name vergiatesi
Patron saint Martin of Tours ( November 11th )
Website Vergiate
Vergiate municipality in the province of Varese
Parish Church of Saint Martin in Vergiate
San Gallo Church

Vergiate is a municipality ( comune ) in the province of Varese in Lombardy .

geography

The municipality is located about 10 kilometers southwest of Varese in the Ticino Valley in the Parco Lombardo Valle del Ticino and covers an area of ​​21.61  km² . Vergiate includes the Cimbro, Corgeno, Cuirone and Sesona factions. The neighboring municipalities are Arsago Seprio , Casale Litta , Comabbio , Golasecca , Mercallo , Mornago , Sesto Calende , Somma Lombardo and Varano Borghi .

population

Population development
year 1751 1805 1809 1811 1853 1871 1881 1901 1921 1951 1971 1991 2001 2011 2018
Residents 440 644 * 899 * 1804 772 3099 3471 4418 4027 5116 6945 8086 8414 8967 8711
  • 1809 merger with Sesona
  • 1811 Merger with Cimbro, Corgeno and Cuirone

traffic

Vergiate is on the Autostrada A8dir , which connects Piedmont with Lombardy. The Aeroporto di Vergiate is located south of the municipality . The Vergiate stop is on the Domodossola – Milano railway line .

Enrico Baj

Industry

The production of aircraft that go back to the beginnings of aviation and contain machines of considerable importance, including transatlantic seaplanes of the 1930s (SIAI was the acronym for Società Idrovolanti Alta Italia with the parent plant in neighboring Sesto Calende ), was stopped as part of a reorganization of the Finmeccanica Group sold to Aermacchi and completely replaced by AgustaWestland helicopters .

Attractions

  • Romanesque church of San Gallo built around 1000 AD
  • Santa Maria Assunta Church
  • Parish church of San Martino (with a 17th century altar by Bernardino Castelli da Velate and an organ from 1898 by the company of Cesare Bernasconi and his son Giovanni from Varese ).
  • medieval towers of Corgeno (reduced to ruins)

Personalities

literature

  • Matteo Colaone: Le Torri di Tordera ei castellieri medioevali del Seprio occidentale. In Terra Insubre , No. 48, 2008.

Web links

Commons : Vergiate  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Vergiate (Italian) on tuttitalia.it/lombardia
  • Vergiate (Italian) on lombardia.indettaglio.it/ita/comuni/va
  • Vergiate (Italian) on comuni-italiani.it
  • Vergiate on de.lagomaggiore.net, accessed November 25, 2015

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.