Verzuolo

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Verzuolo
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Verzuolo (Italy)
Verzuolo
Country Italy
region Piedmont
province Cuneo  (CN)
Coordinates 44 ° 36 '  N , 7 ° 29'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 36 '0 "  N , 7 ° 29' 0"  E
height 420  m slm
surface 26.20 km²
Residents 6,421 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 245 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 12039
prefix 0175
ISTAT number 004240
Popular name Verzuolesi
Website Verzuolo

Verzuolo ( Piedmontese Vërzeul ) is an Italian municipality with 6421 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Cuneo (CN), Piedmont region .

The municipality consists of the districts Falicetto, Villanovetta, Papò, Chiamina, S. Bernardo, Pomerolo and Verzuolo. The neighboring municipalities are Costigliole Saluzzo , Lagnasco , Manta , Pagno , Piasco , Savigliano and Villafalletto .

geography

panorama

The place is at an altitude of 420 m above sea level. The municipality covers an area of ​​26 km² .

history

Some of the rock carvings above Verzuolo could go back to the Bronze Age (2200-900 BC). They probably belong to the same era as the ones at RocceRé in the Mairatal.

In 1068 the name of the village appears for the first time in a deed of donation. 1159 Bishop was Charles I, Archbishop of Turin, by Emperor Frederick I curtem de Verciolo cum Castelli et turribus et districto . On October 2, 1165, Robaldo and Bartolommeo, the sons of Tidino de Monte Rossetto , gave the property to Manfredo di Saluzzo. This in turn appointed them as masters of the area.

Fort tower from 1377; it originated on ruins of the 11th century

In 1377 the Castello di Verzuolo , which still exists today, was built on the ruins of the previous castle destroyed by Federico II. Di Saluzzo. In 1389 he had one dedicated to St. Michael build a church consecrated. In 2016 the owners, the Barbiellini Amidei family, wanted to sell the castle. After the Waldensian community was destroyed, a mission of the Capuchin Order was set up in 1602 .

In 1565 there were massive attacks by the Waldensians in Verzuolo as well , while these were to be driven out by a merger of the Catholic Savoy and French. The Catholics were expelled from the village on September 3, 1565, Giovanni Bunis was killed instantly, but Giovanni Maero was previously tortured. Both were thrown dead in the river. September 3rd was later made a public holiday after the Waldensians were driven out.

At least since the end of the 18th century there was a market that took place every Tuesday. In order to protect themselves militarily against France, Savoy fortified the valleys and built roads so that heavy equipment, such as cannons, could be brought in quickly or moved between the valleys. The old road led from Manta to Verzuolo until the beginning of the 18th century through today's road to Pinerolo , where there was a barracks that led towards Saluzzo and on to Cuneo .

In 1854, 215 filatoi (spinners) worked in the village with its 3,415 inhabitants in the local yarn industry, spread over eight spinning mills and three spinning machines. The silk produced there in three factories was mainly offered in Turin. The cattle of the valley, but also grain, were sold in the Saluzzo and Villafalletto markets .

On October 24, 1880, a railway stopped in Verzuolo for the first time , with a maximum speed of 25 km / h, with the station at the time at the crossroads of the Falicetto road , immediately after entering Verzuolo on the right. The station also received a telegraph station.

In the spring of 1899, the municipality signed a ten-year contract with Tommaso Toesca, in which the company was to provide electrical lighting in the town. The company founded for this purpose, made up of Toesca, Luigi Burgo and others, traded as Alimoda Burgo & C and was based at Mulin Cit . The system, powered by a small turbine , called Calzoni , made it possible to replace the kerosene lamps with 19 electric ones in 1902.

Personalities

literature

  • Goffredo Casalis: Dizionario geografico storico-statistico-commerciale degli Stati di SM il Re di Sardegna , Vol. XXV, Turin 1854, pp. 50-59. ( Digitized version )

Web links

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

Remarks

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ↑ Goffredo Casalis: Dizionario geografico storico-statistico-commerciale degli Stati di SM il Re di Sardegna , Vol. XXV, Turin 1854, pp. 50-59, here: p. 55.
  3. ↑ There it says: “Robaldus et Bartholomeus, filii quondam Tidini, fecerunt donationem in manibus Manfredi marchionis et filii sui Manfredi de omni suo iure, quod habere visi sunt in Verzolio, videlicet in redimine quod appellatur montem Rossetum. Manfredus vero Marchio dedit pro feudo Robaldo et Bartolomeo, eorumque haeredibus illud idem, quod supra dederunt in Verzolio, eosque investivit jure militari, et eis suum adiutorium promisit, et se bonum dominum fore. ”(Quoted from: Monumenta Aquensia. Adjectae sunt Plures ac Finitimarum Pedemontanae Ditionis Provinciarum Chartae et Chronicae cum Collectione Diplomatica ac Tabulis Genealogicis Antiquas Marchionum Montisferati Salutiarum Cevae incisae Boschi Ponzoni ac aliorum Aledramicae Gentis Marchionum Origines Enucleantibus , vol. 2, Turin 1790, p. 663).
  4. ^ In vendita il castello di Verzuolo , in: La Stampa, December 2, 2016.
  5. ↑ Goffredo Casalis: Dizionario geografico storico-statistico-commerciale degli Stati di SM il Re di Sardegna , Vol. XXV, Turin 1854, pp. 50-59, here: pp. 52, 55.