Vogogna

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Vogogna
Template: Infobox municipality in Italy / maintenance / coat of arms missingNo coat of arms available.
Vogogna (Italy)
Vogogna
Country Italy
region Piedmont
province Verbano-Cusio-Ossola  (VB)
Coordinates 46 ° 0 ′  N , 8 ° 17 ′  E Coordinates: 46 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 8 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  E
height 223  m slm
surface 15 km²
Residents 1,750 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 117 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 28805
prefix 0324
ISTAT number 103077
Popular name vogognesi
Patron saint Mater Dolorosa ( September 15 )
Website Vogogna
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Ossola Valley in the Piedmont region
Parish church of Sacro Cuore di Gesù
Visconti Castle by Vogogna

Vogogna is an Italian commune in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (VB) in the Piedmont region . The place is a member of the association I borghi più belli d'Italia (The Most Beautiful Places in Italy) and is the sponsor of the TCI Bandiera Arancione .

geography

The municipality is located on the Simplon railway line Domodossola-Milano. The municipality covers an area of ​​15  km² . The neighboring municipalities are Beura-Cardezza , Pallanzeno , Piedimulera , Pieve Vergonte and Premosello-Chiovenda .

history

The village, first mentioned in a notarial deed from 970 AD, remained a farming village until the 13th century, when Vogogna was chosen to be the capital of the Ossola Inferiore due to its geographical location. In 1014, Emperor Heinrich II (HRR) donated the landscape of Ossola Valley to the Bishop of Novara . After the destruction (1328) by a catastrophic flood, Vogogna became the political center of the Lower Ossola Valley and thus the seat of jurisdiction, to which the Quattro Terre also belonged: Masera , Trontano , Beura and Cardezza , which they held as the mandate until 1818 passed to Ornavasso .

population

Population development
year 1861 1871 1881 1901 1921 1931 1951 1971 1991 2001 2011 2018
Residents 1641 1685 1767 1640 1825 1679 1975 2130 1837 1702 1751 1737

traffic

Vogogna station is of regional importance (like that of Premosello-Chiovenda ) as a transfer point between the Domodossola-Milano and Domodossola-Omegna-Novara lines.

Attractions

  • Visconti Castle built in 1348 by Giovanni Visconti Bishop of Novara . The castle was renovated in 1990–1998.
  • Medieval Rocca in the Genestredo district destroyed by the Valais in the 16th century.
  • Palazzo Pretorio built in 1348 by Giovanni Visconti preserves the Mascherone celtico (Celtic mascaron)
  • Neo-Gothic parish church of Sacro Cuore di Gesù built between 1894 and 1904
  • Memorial to the Peruvian Jorge Chávez , who was the first to cross the Alps in his Bleriot plane in 1910 and had an accident on the Domodossola plain at the end of his flight
  • Marchesa house built in 1350.

literature

  • Various authors: Comuni della Provincia del Verbano-Cusio-Ossola. Consiglio Regionale del Piemonte, Chieri 2012, ISBN 9788896074503 .
  • Various authors: Il Piemonte paese per paese. Bonechi Editore, Firenze 1996, ISBN 88-8029-156-4 .
  • Edgardo Ferrari: La repubblica dell'Ossola. Guida alla storia e ai luoghi. Editore Grossi, Domodossola 2001.

Web links

Commons : Vogogna  - collection of images, 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. ^ I borghi più belli d'Italia. Borghipiubelliditalia.it, accessed July 16, 2017 (Italian).
  3. ↑ Bandiera Arancione. In: Bandierearancioni.it. Retrieved May 9, 2018 (Italian).